Mythic version of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 6908 Destined
"How is it? Did Zhou Gongjin cause you any trouble?" Liu Bei asked after Chen Xi came over from Sun Ce's side.

“How should I put it? He probably just wants to get some money from me. Of course, there may be other temptations, and I’m not too sure. But overall, to me, Zhou Gongjin thinks the price is a bit low and wants to make some money.” Chen Xi said calmly, somewhat like he was slandering Zhou Yu.

"If he wants to get some money, why would he say something like reducing production? He can just ask you for it directly, how can you not give it to you? Generally speaking, you will support other people's demands within a reasonable range." Liu Bei raised his eyebrows and asked with some confusion.

"Hey, Lord Xuande, now that you mention it, I seem to have overlooked something." Chen Xi thought for a moment and said, "Indeed, if Governor Zhou is short of some small things, he could just ask me for them directly. Why bother doing this? It seems like this guy is not here to get money, but to test me."

"Tell me what's going on?" Liu Bei asked with a frown.

Chen Xi recounted the whole cause and effect, even why he gave Zhou Yu the price list, and also explained how Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang allegedly exploited the Jiangdong families. Liu Bei was stunned, as he really had never considered that this was possible.

"That's about it. I really don't understand what Zhou Gongjin is testing, but I guess it doesn't matter. Let me make a note of it. If he says the price is too low, I will say I have already increased it." Chen Xi chuckled. Although I don't understand what you are trying to test, I know you must want to make money, so I can just make some when the time comes.

"Lord Xuande, what have you figured out after watching for so long?" After Chen Xi remembered this, he asked Liu Bei, who was still watching the preliminary round of the Grand Martial Arts Show, with some curiosity.

"The veterans of Yanzhou have grudges against the veterans of Jizhou, the veterans of Xuzhou have grudges against the veterans of Yanzhou, and the veterans of Qingzhou have grudges against the veterans of Jizhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou and other surrounding areas. I am standing on top, and they can sometimes be really angry." Liu Bei sighed and said, "I have to follow your approach and put the will of the empire in the small world, so that the defeated will subconsciously avoid the winner. This is the only way."

Liu Bei had not agreed with Chen Xi's proposal at first, and he always felt that Chen Xi's way of playing was a bit of a trick on people's minds. But after watching the preliminary round of the grand martial arts show today, how can I put it? Liu Bei was right there, and no one could stop themselves.

Liu Bei was not bragging, he really did have an amazing charm among the veterans. However, even with such charm, he still failed twice today. It was only thanks to the presence of Guan Yu and others who helped to block the mistakes, otherwise there would have been bloodshed.

"It feels like these are all personal grudges among the old soldiers in the north. What about the south?" Chen Xi said calmly. This kind of thing is inevitable, so Chen Xi proposed to settle it under the will of the empire.

"The old soldiers in the south don't have that kind of obvious hatred, but they are seriously divided internally. The veterans from Yizhou and Yongliang are currently in a relatively good situation. The former have never participated in the internal war, while the latter generally take the attitude that the bigger fist is right towards such things." Liu Bei said helplessly.

"I can understand that. Yongliang not only has its own veterans, but also absorbs elite veterans from all over the place. So things like hatred chains are not very popular in Yongliang. If someone is killed, it can only be said that you are weak. Those who can come here have blood on their hands." Chen Xi nodded slowly and said that the Imperial Guards were promoted by killing the enemies.

The problem is that there are many enemies, some of whom are former enemies and current teammates, so if I really want to talk about it, it's quite troublesome.

"The biggest problems right now are in Jizhou, Qingzhou, and Yanzhou. Yanzhou is relatively okay, as Zhao Zhen has basically gathered all the hatred together and is preparing to cut off the chain of hatred by force." Chen Xi thought for a moment and explained, "Jizhou has Sun Er, Jiang Guang, Zhao Ying, Jiang Fei and other outsiders from Jizhou to suppress it, so the problem is not big. Qingzhou is in a big trouble."

The old Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou have grudges against all the imperial guards. Huangfu Song has a joke that says, among these top veterans in the Central Plains, if anyone over fifty doesn't look familiar to me, he must be from the Yellow Turbans.

Almost no old Yellow Turban soldiers want to seek revenge now. They are very calm. After all, they know very well what kind of life they lived in the past and what kind of life they live now.

But just because the old Yellow Turban soldiers didn't want to take revenge doesn't mean that the Three Rivers and Five Schools who were still alive at that time didn't want to take revenge. After all, compared to the Yellow Turbans, they had a pretty good life back then. The emergence of the Yellow Turbans caused many of them to lose their comrades.

Even though Huangfu Song led the Three Rivers and Five Schools to achieve an astonishing number of kills and a huge casualty ratio, the Three Rivers and Five Schools also lost half of their men in the process of pacifying the world in those seven months. In other words, the Three Rivers and Five Schools who are still alive today and the old soldiers of the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans who can appear here basically have a corresponding hatred relationship.

Then the question arises. For the Three Rivers and Five Schools that can still appear now, even the regular soldiers who followed the big boss at that time should now be smelted to the fifth level. As for the big boss, those who have not retired are in their fifties and start at the fifth level. Those who have retired are in their sixties or seventies and the minimum is the sixth level.

It can be said that this battle is inevitable, and the Yellow Turban soldiers cannot avoid it even if they don't want to fight.

Just like when Huang Xiu faced Zhang Han, Zhang Han was able to remain calm because his life was incomparably better than it was back then. The brothers who died for a bite of food back then were even a relief at that time. But Huang Xiu could not be like that. Even though life in that era was far worse than it is now, as an officer he also had the energy to take care of his comrades.

It's not that the comradeship between the old Yellow Turban soldiers has faded, but in that painful era of survival, the emotions invested in a bowl of rice are greater than those invested in the comrades around them. After all, no matter how good the relationship is, it is difficult to maintain in an era where death can occur at any time.

For the Yellow Turbans at that time, they didn't even care about their own lives. Even though their comrades were important, they had to survive.

This is not a problem of emotional indifference, but a problem of the cruel background of the times.

"It's a pity that the Yellow Turbans are qualified to lead this group of old soldiers..." Chen Xi looked at Zang Ba and Guan Hai standing aside, and Zhang Yan in a corner. Well, it is impossible for any of them to take the lead personally.

"It's not a big problem. I talked to some veterans who were born in the Yellow Turbans. They don't really care about it. They clearly said that they just couldn't survive back then." Liu Bei said calmly, "So as long as they can continue like this in the future, they don't really care about the so-called severing of past karma. Most of them are old now."

In fact, it is not just a problem of age. Most of the old Yellow Turban soldiers, unless they are gifted, have suffered from deficiencies in their early years. It may not be as serious as the Dalits, but deficiencies are inevitable.

Even though those who survived have already been screened and have certain qualities superior to ordinary people, just like the Dalits currently under Kusroyi, each of them has superhuman absorption ability. Nonsense, without this, they would have died long ago!
The old Yellow Turban soldiers who have survived to this day and have reached a very high level of smelting basically have one thing in common, that is, an extremely high nutrient absorption rate, and some of them even have special energy storage units.

These are the keys to ensure that the old Yellow Turban soldiers can survive until now and have high smelting points. Those who do not have these special phenomena have no chance of coming to Chang'an to participate in the grand military performance. They are either dead or too old due to losses in their early years.

"I have talked to about 200 veterans from the Yellow Turban era. Most of them don't care about the possible reckoning. Most of them will fight if they want, as long as they don't destroy their current lives." Liu Bei smiled and said, "So there is no need to worry too much about Qingzhou. There will be no problem."

"In this case, the scale of the conflict should still be within controllable range." Chen Xi nodded when he heard this. If nearly 500 veterans really gathered in the small world and started fighting, the scene would be too chaotic to watch. Moreover, Chen Xi was also worried that the small world could not withstand the full force of so many crazy people.

Take the high-level lightsaber that is powerful enough to cut atoms as an example. Under normal circumstances, there are no more than three people in the entire Han Dynasty who can beat this kind of thing. But if you take the principle of "I will not live today and I will fight you all", at least dozens of people can beat it.

Putting aside other things, if Jiang Guang really didn't care about his life, he would push the Demon Disintegration to the extreme, break through the second stage, and directly absorb energy from the molecules and atoms. Not to mention wielding the Sword of Light, he himself is a large-scale Sword of Light.

Although Jiang Guang would probably be killed instantly with this kind of play, it was equivalent to a few hundred kilograms of matter converting most of its mass into energy and releasing it instantly. According to the output of physics, it was enough to cause damage to the center of the solar system.

Given the current situation of the Han Dynasty, even with all kinds of reinforcements and suppression, if Chang'an City cannot be blown up, at least the small world and half of the Weiyang Palace can be blown up, which would be very bad.

"Oh, destroying the small world, there are also some more outrageous and rare abilities. It is indeed possible to penetrate the small world in point-to-point burst." Liu Bei recalled the idealistic severing used by Zhang Yue to cut off the thick-backed knife and reverse the oath. How to say it, this idealistic severing has no idealistic side, only a purely physical attack.

"When the competition starts, high-level Hanguang Swords, three-stage Heavenly Demons and the like will be banned. I think these things may really be able to break the small world apart." Chen Xi said after thinking for a while.

"Ban Zhang Yue's idealism cutting ability. His idealism cutting ability is not idealism at all. It can only cut off everything physically." Liu Bei arranged to Chen Xi.

"What does it mean to cut off everything physically?" Chen Xi said in surprise.

"It means that, according to the current test, a weapon with spirit can be cut off by a sword, but the spirit cannot be damaged." Liu Bei explained simply, "He said that he called it idealistic cutting, but his idealism is definitely problematic."

In fact, there is no problem. In fact, Zhang Yue's idealistic cutting only shows the cutting effect. In essence, it should be called idealistic stillness. When the knife is cut down, from a microscopic level, the movement of the row of atoms that it is cutting will be directly stopped.

Movement is the essence of all things. This period of dislocated stagnation results in a rupture at the macro level. Therefore, Zhang Yue's idealistic cutting can cut through all things in the physical world, because the essence of this thing is to cut off the fluctuations at the micro level.

It's a very amazing effect, but this thing can only work on the physical level. If it is used for defense blessing, heavy armor defense and other defense abilities with idealistic concepts, it is no different from ordinary heavy slashing, but there is no defense with idealistic concepts...

Even if a two-ton bear is in front of you, it will be split in half directly. It's simply against the will of heaven.

"Damn it, how did they come up with these talents?" Chen Xi complained helplessly. Zhang Yue was a guy who could even cut diamonds, the hardest thing, smoothly. Chen Xi had to wonder if there was something wrong with his talent. "When the talent reaches a certain level, it feels like it has nothing to do with the original thing."

“Because when you are smelting in the first half, there are reference objects, but in the second half, the reference objects become fewer and fewer. When any talent reaches the end, it is essentially the continuous output of one’s own cognition. Because there is no reference, it all depends on your own accumulation.” Wan Zhen, who had also made it to the rostrum at this time, heard Chen Xi’s words and explained casually.

“So the further people go on the path of refining talent, the greater the gap between the talent they refine and the originally set talent will be. But it’s not that there is a problem with their smelting, but that the talent they master is shaped based on their own cognition.” Wan Zhen is a technical genius, and he has also refined quadruple talent, so he has a very thorough understanding of this thing.

It can be said that among the existing empires and the remnants of the collapsed empires, only Wan Zhen can explain the path of talent clearly. As for the others, they can either only explain the structure of the talent tree or go into great depth to an exaggerated level, but it is difficult for them to explain why this is the case based on their eloquence and accumulation.

The former are top generals from the last era such as Huangfu Song, and the latter are top veterans who have walked from the last era to this era. Both sides have their shortcomings, and it is basically impossible to explain this thing clearly.

“That is to say, the further you go on the road of smelting, the greater the difference may be, but this is not a matter of right or wrong, but rather a matter of your own accumulation and cognition?” Chen Xi said thoughtfully.

“Yes, any veteran who has developed his talent to the peak will show the effect of his talent, which is his cognition. But this cognition will be passed on to others through knowledge.” Wan Zhen said with a smile.

“So, in the later stages of the road of talent, if you learn from your predecessors, you can also learn the same talent effects, but it is basically impossible to surpass them.” Liu Bei quickly realized something, because he knew the veterans very well and had seen many such veterans, so he deduced the subsequent content almost instantly.

“Yes, the first half of the road of talent generally does not involve idealism. Even talents such as heavy armor defense are essentially solidified idealism. Therefore, copying other people’s paths in the early stages does not have any impact. But as you go further, the further you go, the more you need your own cognition and accumulation to support you.” Wan Zhen said very seriously.

"Because only the talent supported by one's own cognition is the most suitable direction for one's development." Liu Bei sighed lightly when he heard this, and then naturally looked in the direction of some veterans. He now more or less understood why some people with the same talent structure, although having stronger basic qualities, still could not beat others.

With Wan Zhen's explanation, Liu Bei completely understood why Li Zhe, although he possessed six infinite transformations and could switch to a talent structure that could restrain others at any time, was still not invincible in the sixth level, and even found it difficult to escape from some people.

“This is probably the reason why some people are nearly invincible while others are beaten by those at the fifth level, even though they are all at the sixth level of smelting.” Chen Xi also somewhat matched a few veterans in his mind.

"As time goes by, the more you value your own beliefs. The road to refining is a collective road, but the people who are being refining are also independent people. They grow and develop under the protection of the collective, rather than becoming a mold. In the end, they still have to fall into the 'I'." Wan Zhen said seriously, "But most veterans don't realize this."

"Does this kind of knowledge need to be popularized to veterans? Will it cause some conflicts in thinking in the early stages?" Liu Bei didn't care about those philosophical concepts and went straight to the core of the problem: can this thing be disseminated to veterans?

"It may be okay to popularize it to veterans who have undergone third or fourth level smelting. If it is too low, it will easily cause the opposite effect." Wan Zhen thought for a while and said that some powerful veterans would also realize this when they were at the fourth or fifth level smelting, and consciously construct their own finishing skills, adjusting their talents in a direction that suits themselves.

"It's actually a bit late when they reach the sixth level. They have gone too deep. If they continue to follow the path of others, even if they develop some of their own things, the framework will have become someone else's framework." Wan Zhen thought for a while and gave his own judgment, "Anyway, this kind of thing should be done in moderation. It can be popularized at the right time."

"Okay, thank you. If you have this kind of knowledge again in the future, remember to write a report and submit it to the Executive Yuan. It will be counted as military merit for you." Chen Xi said to Wan Zhen very seriously.

"The ultimate goal of military merit is to become a marquis, and the Wan family itself is a founding marquis." Wan Zhen said very casually.

"I can spend resources to send you and your tour group to the inner side of the world so that you can have a good travel." Chen Xi instantly gave Wan Zhen something that Wan Zhen couldn't refuse. His favorite thing was to see all kinds of new things.

"Okay, I'll write one, organize it, and send it over later." Wan Zhen said after thinking for a while. He liked to broaden his horizons and see new and strange things. The inside of the world was originally Wan Zhen's next stop, but his tour group didn't want to go there.

The problem is that without this high-level tour group, Wan Zhen can only travel around the safe zone at most, and forget about going anywhere else. As for the inside of the world, that is even more wishful thinking. After all, Wan Zhen has investigated the degree of danger there.

Apart from anything else, even if it was Wan Zhen’s regular high-end tour group, they would have to be careful once they entered, otherwise, capsizing would be no joke.

Although for Wan Zhen, the purpose of life is to see all kinds of strange and bizarre things, but only by living can one see more strange things. Death is nothing to be afraid of for Wan Zhen, but he is still very sad that he cannot see the strange things in the universe. After all, he has been trapped in a corner for decades, and he really needs to open his eyes.

After saying that, Wan Zhen left. He really wanted to go to the inner world to open his eyes. If he finished the task assigned by Chen Xi earlier, maybe he could set off earlier. As for the preliminaries of the grand martial arts show, Wan Zhen had watched it for so long and had seen all the fancy moves he should have seen. If there was less to watch later, he could also watch the secret magic mirror. Wasn’t the elder of the Wan family also present? Just record it!
To be honest, Mrs. Wan is also very troubled now. Wan Zhen has no children and runs around everywhere, which is already a headache for them. Now that he has spiritual talent, he is still not home. He should come back to sleep with his concubines at least. A new batch of black and white beauties have been brought in from Rome. It is said that they are very fertile, but they were not tricked back.

Even if the worst happens and you can't have children, you can come back and be the head of the family. The Wan family needs elites like you. If nothing else, the Wan family needs ambitious young people like Wan Zhen to support the 25th National Congress and prove that they have not declined.

Wan Zhen was quite disgusted with this, but the Wan family sent two precious elders to deal with it. Wan Zhen had no choice. This was the reason why the family's population was declining. The two elders had often taken Wan Zhen out to play when he was young. In terms of blood relationship, they were very distantly related, but in terms of relationship, when Wan Zhen was sick at a young age, it was these two elders who stayed by his side all night, fed him, gave him medicine, and wiped his body.

What can Wan Zhen say? The old man has already said that if you don’t like the newly purchased black and white girl for the family, you don’t have to touch her. It’s normal that the family can’t give birth under the current situation. So if you don’t like playing with girls, go back and sit down and take a look. Just bring your nephews out to broaden their eyes. The family is going to have a fight with the three kings this time, so you should at least support them.

Wan Zhen knew very well that it was that fucking clan leader who was playing the emotional card, and that the other party couldn't even deceive his nephew Wan Peng. But compared to the conscienceless Wan Peng, Wan Zhen had some conscience, so he gave in after being pestered for a few days, and stated that he would attend the 25th Alliance as a representative of the Wan family, and that he would take sole responsibility for the quarrel with the three kings.

Wan Zhen thought that he would be done with it if he took on the responsibility. But when he returned, he found out that the family had sent the seal to him. In the future, he would be the Marquis of Mendeting in Chang'an. As for Wan Peng, forget it. If there is a spiritual talent, let the spiritual talent possessor be the head of the family! We are not fools, okay!

It can be said that Wan Zhen’s dream of traveling around the world had not yet been realized because he was forcibly arrested and brought back because there was a real mountain of gold and silver to inherit.

"If I remember correctly, Wan transferred the title to him?" Liu Bei said after Wan Zhen left.

"Well, after all, the Wan family believes that Congling is a Feng Shui treasure land, and they are willing to confront the three kings head-on for this." Chen Xi said speechlessly.

"It's normal. Wan, who died out twice, went to Pamirs and gave birth to six children. Four of them are still alive today. What's wrong with going to war over this?" Liu Bei said as a matter of course.

Stay at home, take a good rest for a few days, and take the kids out to play