Chapter 340 Root
Li Ru and Jia Xu had long forgotten what Guo Hao said about assisting Liu Ying in rebuilding the Han Dynasty. Although they knew that what Guo Hao said might be true, so what? When the nine sons competed for the throne, Guo Hao could only go with the flow.
As for Guo Hao's wishes, in the eyes of everyone, it is actually not that important. At that time, it is no longer a personal matter. The endless stream of supporters will push Guo Hao to that point whether he is willing or not.
Even if Guo Hao really fulfills his promise, the world is so vast that it may not be possible to conquer it in one or two generations. Then the next generation of leaders becomes the biggest problem.
The first thing to be affected is the background of the next generation of leaders, which no one can change.
In the current court, the various forces of the Han Dynasty, the aristocratic families, the poor families, and the fence-sitters are intertwined and complicated, making it impossible to filter out the relationships among them.
And the place of origin is even more complicated. There is no corresponding talent in the Thirteen States. Bingzhou Army, Liangzhou Army, Youzhou Army...
It is already very difficult to maintain harmony and unity nowadays, and they really dare not bet whether the next generation can reproduce such glory.
If they cannot set a basic tone now, such problems will inevitably arise in twenty years at the latest.
This is also the reason why Chen Xi called a halt. He did not want to face this problem. The most unpredictable thing in the world is always the human heart.
Chen Xi's idea was to delay until these wise generals truly witnessed the vastness of the world and personally fought against the top empires.
Although these people now understand how vast the world is, they still have no real sense of how vast the world is. Perhaps only people like Li Jue in the Western Regions can understand this feeling.
Chen Xi is not stupid. He even knows that the reason why Xun Yu deliberately brought up this matter before the general came back was to let him, Chen Xi, make a decision. Only Chen Xi's current status and identity can truly shake all this.
Any power derived from food, clothing and daily necessities will lead to a struggle for interests, and the struggle for interests is inevitable.
Unless this struggle can be elevated to a very pure struggle of ideals, this is also the reason why all top countries in history have eventually perished. After losing their ideals, the quagmire of interest struggles is enough to drag down all mortals.
The Qin State finally destroyed the six kingdoms after the bravery of six generations. Then the second generation perished. Wasn’t it because after losing all their opponents at once, they fell into a struggle for interests?
The originally loyal Li Si and Zhao Gao completely fell in the face of interests, and the entire empire fell into the quagmire of interest struggles.
When Qin Shihuang was alive, he could suppress everything, but when he was gone, these contradictions erupted like a volcano.
The same was true of Emperor Wu of Han. His early wisdom and bravery disappeared, and he even had to deal with tragedy such as the Witchcraft Incident in his later years. This was all because his struggle for ideals was successful, and what followed was naturally an endless struggle for interests.
This is a scene that is bound to occur in almost all successful forces. This is also the reason why the aristocratic families began to change their thinking. The reason why the thousand-year-old aristocratic families are not afraid of any opponents is because their layout is not in the present, but in the future.
The idealists fell and the realists rose, and the situation returned to the battlefield familiar to the aristocratic families, and then a new cycle of the rise of a new group of idealists began.
Chen Xi left the Government Affairs Office. He was also very confused. History is a spiral cycle, and it is too difficult for humans to break this cycle.
"Xun Wenruo? Every shot is a sure kill, you are really amazing!"
Chen Xi had a bitter smile on his face. Xun Yu's move, or the action relying on the general trend, had already planted a thorn between him and the others.
If he chose the eldest princess, there would inevitably be a gap between him and Li Ru and others. Even though everyone knew that this was right, no one wanted their descendants to end up being executed.
What's even more amazing is that he has no one to choose except the eldest princess. In fact, there was only this one option from beginning to end, an option that forced him to make a choice from the perspective of the aristocratic family.
Either he, Chen Xi, returns to the aristocratic family faction, or he, Chen Xi, becomes a neutral faction, or a Han Dynasty faction like Xun Yu.
In short, he was pulled from the clouds to the quagmire, which meant that he was destined to no longer be able to sit back and watch the lovemaking as before, but to have to participate in it himself.
But playing the game in person is precisely a reflection of a chess player's incompetence , and it is his incompetence that caused his failed strategy.
It's not just Xun Yu, even the seemingly unpleasant Jia Xu and Li Ru are like this, they all choose to drag Chen Xi into the water.
Chen Xi was too young, and no one would like to see such a young person always looming over their heads.
"You are being too confident to expect me to follow the path you have planned!" Chen Xi thought with a wry smile. He now has the will but not the ability, even though he knew about the conflict between Xun Yu and Jia Xu and their purpose.
However, his mental energy was greatly depleted and he no longer had the energy left to suppress these two people, or these two factions.
"It's up to you this time, General Guo Hao!"
Chen Xi looked up at the sun in the sky. Whether it would dominate the world or be extraordinary and detached from the mundane world, all depended on the sun's own choice.
"This is really troublesome. I underestimated these guys!" The drowsy feeling came over him again. Chen Xi could only shake his head helplessly and return to his mansion.
In Youzhou, Liu Yu's mood was extremely bad. When he first heard that Xue Rengui, a die-hard iron-blooded faction, was seriously injured and Gongsun Zan returned in defeat, he was still in a good mood. After all, in his eyes, Gongsun Zan was just a pure warrior who interfered with his policies everywhere.
Liu Yu was not a saint. In his opinion, it was okay to fight violence with violence. However, in his opinion, if a place could be recovered, it would be better not to destroy it.
Liu Yu actually had no good intentions, it was just that with the killing god Gongsun Zan by his side, Liu Yu's policies were subtly shown to be particularly good. In fact, Liu Yu was not a good person either, and he had no good intentions at all.
It’s just that Liu Yu’s massacre was cultural, while Gongsun Zan’s massacre was physical. In essence, the two men are basically birds of a feather.
As a result, the two men disliked each other in everything and attacked each other, making it impossible for either side to proceed. In the end, the conflict became increasingly serious. If Gongsun Zan had not lost a battle in the Central Plains and was willing to follow the leadership of the central government, he would have killed Liu Yu long ago .
This is also the root of the contradiction. Gongsun Zan's White Horse Volunteers moved too fast. One day a group of Hu people disappeared, and the next day another group of Hu people evaporated, creating a white terror. He forced Liu Yu's Hu women to marry Han people, and this policy of submission to the king was directly abolished. After all, under the white terror, the Hu people did not dare to settle down.
After settling down today, the White Horse Volunteers will fly over tomorrow. I dare not risk being beheaded and surrender.
