Chapter 1106: The Ambition of the Aristocratic Family
The news that Wu Zhao had conquered Yupal did not leak out. Wu Zhao understood that the first bird to stick its head out would be shot at, and her strength was not yet enough to crush all her opponents.
It will turn into a situation where everyone unites to target her. At this moment, it is just like the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. What she needs is to accumulate strength.
Store up food, build high walls, and slowly become king.
This wise saying is never out of date.
Yupal's surrender brought with him not only an Undead Guard, but also some refugees whom they had been sheltering for these days.
The Han Dynasty came too quickly and left too quickly, causing countless crimes to breed on this land and bandits to run rampant.
As a Parthian officer, Yupal took action when he could not stand the situation and spontaneously gathered a group of supporters.
Speaking of which, Wu Zhao and others all had their own gathering places, which were left by Guo Hao. Under the division of Li Ru and others, they occupied different areas of this half of the Parthian territory.
Clearing out the bandits in the area and governing the area they rule are all considerations of their abilities.
And Wu Zhao took a solid step in this process, which allowed her to be on par with the Yuan family to some extent, even temporarily.
You know, the Yuan family now only has one super heavy infantry.
Although the strength of these Parthian legions declined to varying degrees due to the loss of their resolute will and the blow of the destruction of their country and their families, they still maintained their basic strength.
The Undead Guards were also a legion capable of competing with the super elite for a while, but they performed even better on the Parthian battlefield, and at one point were able to suppress the three-talented Invincible Legion and Trajan's Legion.
It is probably impossible to do so now, because they have lost the belief in why they are fighting, they have also lost the will of the empire, and their strength has declined sharply.
When Wu Zhao was busy regulating the territories under her command, the migration of the aristocratic families had basically been completed.
The aristocratic families were also very confused about this.
Geographically speaking, Yuan Shao was in the west and Wu Zhao and his men were in the east, so they were sandwiched between the two forces.
Although there was nothing wrong, they always felt like they were being cheated.
Feelings aside, Chen Xi did follow the previous agreement and handed over a bunch of places to them, allowing them to achieve achievements that surpassed their ancestors in an instant.
While most of the noble families were still immersed in joy, many people already felt that something was wrong.
Among them, the one with the strongest reaction was not the Chen family, the Sima family, the Xun family... these thousand-year-old families, but the Wang family, which had always been lukewarm.
Although this family has always been a people who never play unless they reach their limit, that is in the family genes. Everyone in their family seems to have very weak political cells.
But once the war-torn era comes, the Wang family will rise rapidly and become more glorious than other families.
Especially if we count upwards, the Wang family also had a leader at the level of the Ten Sages, Wang Jian, so when they were transforming into military aristocrats, it was actually smoother than other families.
"Why do I feel like something is so wrong?" Wang Jun, the talented son of the Wang family, felt something was wrong the more he looked at the map.
Wang Jun was also one of the 72 generals in the Temple of Martial Arts. His greatest achievement was the destruction of Eastern Wu.
It is a consensus that this place has a pit, but Wang Jun now feels that this place is more than just a pit.
It was simply that Chen Xi tricked these noble families out of the Central Plains and then started killing them.
He suddenly realized what the greatest asset of the aristocratic families was. It was not their so-called knowledge background, but the reputation they had built in the local area.
Every time you move against the aristocratic family, you will have to endure certain backlash.
But when they migrated from the Central Plains to the outside, it seemed that their greatest support was directly removed.
"Do you think those old guys can't see it?" Wang Shichong sneered, "Those old guys know everything, but they have been blinded by greed."
Wang Shichong, the most intelligent one among the younger generation of the Wang family, is more like a child of an aristocratic family compared to other members of the Wang family. He has both the boldness of a chivalrous man and the elegance of an aristocratic family.
Speaking of which, in history, Wang Shichong was also helpless. He formed alliances and had elite soldiers and generals. It can be said that he made use of everything, and even brought in an equally powerful force, Dou Jiande.
From any perspective, Wang Shichong made no mistakes in either his diplomatic or strategic decisions, and even persuaded Dou Jiande to come to his aid with more than 100,000 elite troops, which was almost a model of diplomacy of forming alliances.
It forced everyone to believe that it was almost impossible to achieve the strategic goal. Fighting would only result in being attacked from all sides. When everyone was ready to give up, it was the limit of what the strategy could achieve.
But it didn't work.
The military situation is not reasonable. Li Shimin led 3,500 black-armored cavalry to charge into an army of more than 100,000 and killed two kings in one battle, laying the foundation for the establishment of the Tang Dynasty.
The military will never reason with you. No matter what tactics, diplomatic relations, or strategy, I will defeat you in one battle. What use is your strong foundation?
After Xiang Yu fought the Battle of Julu, it was found that the princes actually had much more power than Xiang Yu, but they did not even have the courage to look up at Xiang Yu.
However, in this world, Wang Shichong, like Li Shimin, is a young man who is a little famous but has not yet appeared on the stage.
Wang Jun thought about it and nodded. He really had no achievements in politics, unlike Wang Shichong who could now participate in the meeting of clan elders.
"Then what should we do?" Wang Jun scratched his head, gave up thinking, and asked Wang Shichong directly.
"Let's fight!" Wang Shichong sneered. "Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin, Cao Pi and others can fight. I have integrated the power of my family, so I can fight too."
"Since this is a place where dragons fight for supremacy, it doesn't mean that they have to be the ones!" Wang Shichong's face was full of ambition. He also wanted to embark on the road of fighting for hegemony like Li Shimin and others.
"Then why don't we attack the Yuan family?" Wang Xiaojie asked, touching his chin.
"Are you stupid? No one can resist the Yuan family's place!" Wang Shichong cursed angrily.
If the place where the aristocratic family lives is a pit, then the place where the Yuan family lives is a sinkhole, facing Rome directly.
It’s not that Wang Shichong looked down on the Yuan family, but that Wang Shichong understood the Han Dynasty, the Kushan Empire, and Parthia. The more he knew, the more afraid he was of this empire.
Apart from anything else, in his opinion, there are at least 330,000 or 500,000 guards, including the reserve force.
This is the minimum. During the war in the northern border, the Huns were beaten for many years, but they still sent out 240,000 guards.
In addition, Rome also had a large number of barbarian vassal armies, and the two were combined.
If Rome had a brain accident and insisted on destroying the Yuan family, the Han Dynasty would be too late to save them.
Of course, Wang Shichong didn’t think that Rome could defeat the Han Dynasty, but the problem was that the Yuan family was not the Han Dynasty, and this place was too far away.
Their purpose of coming here is to occupy the pit and make this place a part of their past.
"Brother, we listen to you. If you say do it, we will do it!" Wang Xiaojie smiled innocently and said quickly.
"Yes, that's right, brother, we will listen to you!" Wang Jun also nodded repeatedly.
The combined brains of him and Wang Jun were not half as smart as Wang Shichong's, so Wang Shichong was almost the leader among the younger generation.
"Okay, with your support, let's do it!" Wang Shichong nodded.
However, he still hasn't figured out one thing, which is why Li Shimin and his people must split up before they can enter.
Wouldn't it be more convenient if we directly integrated the family's own power?
He knew that Wu Zetian and Li Jiancheng had both obtained a regional division, but that was all political stuff.
Now that everyone is starting to play with the military aristocracy system, they're going to turn against each other and fight each other sooner or later. What's the point of saying all this?
He didn't believe that Li Jiancheng and others couldn't see it, especially people like Li Jiancheng and Cao Pi, why did they have to abandon their families?
Wang Shichong couldn't figure it out, but this didn't affect his preparations.
"Here, this is our ancestral military manual. Take a look at it. Tomorrow I will send a group of people to train you. When you are trained, we will go and fight them!"
Wang Shichong threw a military book to Wang Jun and Wang Xiaojie and said.
"Oh oh oh, I know this. It's the training method of the personal guards left by our ancestor Wang Jian." Wang Jun and Wang Xiaojie were overjoyed.
Wang Shichong nodded. Although these two guys looked stupid, he knew that they were both military geniuses and could definitely replicate Wang Jian's personal guards. Whether their Wang family could make it out of this world depended on whether this thing was as weird as people said.
They have all the fifty-nine dual-talent training methods of the Han family, but if they want to win, they must have their own things, and only by being unexpected can they win.
It’s not like their family hasn’t tried to summon their ancestors before. After all, the Wu’an family, the Bai family, the Wei family, the Huo family, the Han family…
These shameless families, regardless of whether they are related by blood or not, will all run to curry favor with someone as long as there is a nominal inheritance, and what's even more amazing is that they basically all really get something.
This made other families extremely jealous, and they wanted to dig their ancestors out of history.
After all, reality has proved that the ancients were not necessarily inferior to us today.
The weak only complain about the environment, while the strong don’t even want to adapt and directly transform the environment manually.
However, none of them has succeeded so far, and they are in the same boat as the senators in Rome.
The armored soldiers who have experienced hundreds of battles are the training experience of the elite troops of the Qin Dynasty left by Wang Jian. No one in the Wang family has been able to train them before.
Wang Shichong was very confident that Wang Jun and Wang Xiaojie could be trained. If they both failed, Wang Shichong could only consider handing this thing over to the court to see if it could be exchanged for some special troops.
The end of strange is positive, but now they are just starting out, and surprise troops are what they urgently need.
The aristocratic families who reacted and saw through greed, basically, like the Wang family, began to transform into military aristocrats.
For example, after the merger, the two Cuis took out the original copy of "Six Strategies" from somewhere, and then began to train elite troops - the Great Zhou Tiger Guards.
Upon hearing the news, Chen Xi became completely Spartan. He knew that these noble families had a history, but he didn't expect them to be this old.
If we were to change the world, things would definitely get more and more powerful as time goes on, but this world is obviously not normal.
He suspected that time was chaotic and disordered, so only people at the bottom of history could revive in this era.
And the fact that things become more normal as time goes by, to some extent, explains the great terror.
Needless to say, it is terrifying that order can be maintained in an era that should be more chaotic and disorderly.
Moreover, we can already get a glimpse of the past from things like the Xuanyuan Sword and the Nine Cauldrons.
And Jiang Taigong was obviously even more abnormal.
As the chief priest in the Temple of Martial Arts, he was superior to the Four Saints and Ten Philosophers. Chen Xi was a little curious about the things he passed down.
However, he would not go back to exchange it for anything until the Cui family proved that the inheritance was valuable enough.
There is no invincible army, only invincible people. No matter how good something is, it has to be based on facts.
The last group that claimed to be invincible in the world was the Wei Wuzu. After Wu Qi died, their claim to be invincible disappeared into thin air.
All we can say is that these things can help them gain momentum faster, but the rest depends on the talents in their family.
Like the Cui family, there are many aristocratic families that are trying to regain their wealth. Chen Xi and others also know what an aristocratic family is.
The Sima, Xun and Chen families joined forces to target the Iron Eagle Warriors left behind by Tian Rangju and Sima Cuo.
The three companies said they were joining forces, but they also placed bets everywhere, which is what the three companies have always done.
Just like under Cao Pi and Li Jiancheng, there were members of their family.
The three companies appear to have united together, but in reality they all have their own ulterior motives.
On the surface, they are still struggling in the pit, but in fact they have not yet completely transformed into military aristocrats, and their tentacles are reaching out to Kushan and Rome.
It can be said that this Gu-breeding thing that Chen Xi and his team had created had really, to some extent, turned into a place where demons run wild.
There were still some things to worry about in the Han Dynasty, and after leaving the Central Plains, the style of some families had obviously jumped to the side of evil and chaos.
Some noble families are even already developing things like terracotta warriors, the armed living dead. Things that couldn't be experimented on a large scale in the Central Plains initially began to expand and spread the moment the seal was lifted in this area.
But it is obvious that there is a price to pay for seeking death, and this area is not their world yet.
At this moment, the various noble families were still thinking about the old friendship, so when they gave the warning, some people couldn't help it.
Ardashir knew that Parthia would probably be completely occupied by the Han Dynasty, but when these chaotic and evil atrocities occurred, he directly sent troops to wipe an entire sacrificial family off the map.
Not only for justice, but also for resources.
On the ruins, Ardashir wiped the scimitar in his hand.
"Aren't you worried about the revenge of the Han Dynasty?" asked Sulun Davier of the Sulun family.
"If the Han Dynasty is really such a group of people, then don't blame me for turning against you!" Ardashir said expressionlessly .
He could accept the Han Dynasty occupying this land because they were defeated and losers were not qualified to make demands.
But he could not accept the Han Dynasty's aristocratic families committing evil on this land. Even if the empire was destroyed, he, Ardashir, would still be alive.
"Joining the Kushans is also an option!" Ardashir said coldly.
Even though it could not defeat the Han Dynasty, it could make the Han Dynasty restless for ten years.
