Mythic version of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 6944 It doesn’t matter, I will take action
While Chen Xi and others were watching the top veterans deal with the demon, the major families were settling old grudges. After all, over the past few hundred years, the major families had accumulated a lot of hatred, and there had never been a good way to clear up the hatred and vent their anger on each other. This time, Chen Xi was able to give them a chance.

So much so that even the Yuan family, which claims to be more than one level higher, was dragged down and wrestled in the mud. There was no way around it. It was useless for your Yuan family to brag about themselves. It was normal for the big families to disrespect you and come here to measure your size.

"Hurry, hurry, Zhang Qi from the Zhang family of Hanoi is facing off against Wanqi Yao from the Yuan family of Runan. Hurry, hurry, the battle has begun. If you are interested, place your bets now." Liu Zhang excitedly called out to the members of the noble families around him, "This is a true peak showdown."

Yuan Shu glanced at Liu Zhang sideways, but finally said nothing. He was somewhat too lazy to pay attention to Liu Zhang. However, as for Wanqi Yao and his party, Yuan Tao and others pointed them out to Yuan Shu twice when they entered the small world. Yuan Shu at least knew that this was indeed the main force legion carefully selected by the Yuan family.

But I don't know if it was Yuan Shu's illusion. Yuan Shu felt that the team formed by the old Yuan family might not be able to beat the team he randomly put together, such as Zhang Han, Zhang Zhong, Han Rang, Li Li and others. Apart from others, these six brothers were indeed very capable fighters.

"By the way, is Wanqi Yao a subordinate of Runan Yuan? I heard that he is Deng's son-in-law." Cui's team of fanning the flames asked with a smile while placing bets.

"What you said is true. If you find a capable fighter in our Yuan family and he is not a son-in-law from the Deng family, it would be strange, right, Marquis Gaomi?" When Yuan Tao heard Cui's words, he did not take it as an offense. Instead, he turned to look at Deng Tong happily and asked, looking free and generous.

"That's not right." Deng Tong shook his head and said, "We in the Deng family only marry daughters to young men without wives and widowers. Ethics and laws still need to be followed."

Cui was so overwhelmed by the magnanimous words of the Yuan family and the honest and sincere words of Deng Tong that she had no way of answering. Especially the last sentence about ethics and laws, "Are you sure you are not pointing fingers from the highest moral standpoint?"

"But Wanqi Yao is my son-in-law. Let's put it this way. I bet on Wanqi Yao. My family has a silver mine in the Ural Mountains. I can offer the mining rights for ten years as a support for my son-in-law." After Deng Tong finished speaking, he felt that as the head of the family, it would be bad for him to say nothing at this time, so he spoke in the direction of Liu Zhang.

"Marquis Gaomi has pledged the mining rights of a silver mine for ten years." Liu Zhang was shocked. Damn it, it's just a small gamble for fun, but now it's such a big deal, what will happen to others?

Although Liu Zhang's small gamble was already outrageous, Deng Tong came up with the ten-year mining rights for a silver mountain. This was really too big. Even if the dealer had registered with Chen Xi and Man Chong, it was still a regular gamble, but if he really came up to gamble on a silver mountain, you could see Man Chong coming over after a while. There was no other intention. Either your business would be overturned and you would be arrested, or you would pay taxes!

"You're playing too big." Zhang Ling's face turned green. This time, his father had given full authority to his eldest son to handle all matters related to the gambling. In order to let him see the world, he also gave him some gambling money. But Deng Tong was playing so big that Zhang Ling really couldn't afford to keep up.

"Marquis Gaomi, this is no fun." Zhang Fan glanced at Deng Tong. Others were afraid of the Nanyang Deng family, but the Zhang family in Henei was not afraid of the Deng family. Everyone was a nobleman. My ancestor was Zhang Liang, the Marquis of Liu! Even if the number of the three dukes was compared, I would not be afraid.

So when Deng Tong dropped a trump card and directly ruined the scene, Zhang Fan sneered and pointed out Deng Tong's thoughts, "What's the use of the silver mines near the Ural Mountains? Even if they are mined, how to transport them is also a problem. You can't really build a road. Given the environment over there, if you really build a road to Media or the Caspian Sea for a ten-year mining right, it's hard to say who will lose and who will gain."

The young man from the noble family who was shocked by Deng Tong's generosity before the scene, reacted quickly after Zhang Fan's advice, and looked at Deng Tong with a smile. My goodness, this head of the Deng family is really wise and foolish. He can even seize the opportunity to make a fortune from something like this!
"Ah, is that so?" Deng Tong looked at his teammates with a confused look on his face. His teammates nodded silently, and then Deng Tong looked as if he understood, "Do we still need to consider such things? Why don't you wait until we finish building the road before you come here to mine? You didn't say when the mining rights will be used in the next ten years, right? Is it necessary to be so strict?"

Deng Tong's expression was extremely sincere, even a little confused, as he looked at Zhang Fan.

"Will you build a road there?" Zhang Fan asked with a frown. He was a little unsure about Deng Tong's thinking.

"Yes, Lord Chen said that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads, so we, the Deng family, have been building roads." Deng Tong acted as if he worshipped Chen Xi as a god, which made the main forces of the old Yuan family around him somewhat depressed.

"Master Deng, is there something wrong here?" Cyprian pointed at his head and whispered to Sima Yi. The two of them were also in Yuan's team, and compared to communicating with other old guys, Cyprian preferred to communicate with Sima Yi.

"Even a fool can take off as long as he chooses the right person. And based on what you saw in Sizhao City, Xiancheng, and the surrounding radiation zones, don't you have any idea of ​​what the situation is with Gaomi Hou?" Sima Yi said calmly.

As far as the contact between Sima Yi and Deng Tong is concerned, the other party is just an ordinary middle-aged man, but who can blame him as the head of the Nanyang Deng family? He has countless people at his disposal, and a godly man who is willing to give guidance and help, and Deng Tong is completely willing to listen to him.

This is really invincible. If the Deng family is just an ordinary aristocratic family, let alone whether Chen Xi would give special guidance, even if Chen Xi is willing to give guidance, considering issues such as adapting to local conditions, the upper limit of what can be achieved would be just that.

But the Deng family is a super complex of thirteen marquis families, and they have enough manpower and resources to carry out what Chen Xi said. And it is obvious that Chen Xi also likes this kind of family that is willing to listen to his command and advance his plan in a down-to-earth manner without compromise.

Whether it was to serve as a benchmark or to give Gaomi Hou some dignity, at least when Deng Tong honestly asked Chen Xi what to do next, as long as Deng Tong described his current situation in detail, Chen Xi was still willing to spend an afternoon telling Deng Tong how to develop next.

"That's not Marquis Gaomi's ability, it's your cousin's ability. Even though he's thousands of miles away and can't even see it with his own eyes, he can still come up with an effective development plan for Marquis Gaomi based on simple contact. It's really amazing." Cyprian said with some admiration.

"Chang'an, you are here too. What do you think? With your qualifications and the relationship between my cousin and me, how about I take you to meet him privately when the time comes?" A smile appeared on Sima Yi's gloomy expression.

There are only a few monsters in this world that even Sima Yi thinks are perverted, and the rest are at most comparable to Sima Yi. However, the bad thing is that the world is so big that Sima Yi has really encountered all of them, so Sima Yi is very interested in introducing Cyprian to his cousin.

"It's amazing. Your cousin has completely illustrated the saying in your history books that 'only magnificence can bring about prestige'. Many of his actions are vividly reflected in the grandeur, but when you go deeper into the dimness, you will find that he still exists in the dim light." Cyprian said this with a rare look of respect.

As someone who had lived in Rome and witnessed Rome's rise from chaos to order and its recovery under Severus and others, Cyprian could better understand how difficult it was to govern a dynasty in turmoil like this in more than ten years.

The simplest point is that if Cyprian puts himself in his shoes, he can only achieve peace in the world and make the people live and work in peace and contentment. Although this level is also very strong, he is very clear about the level of peace and contentment he can achieve. That is the stability with spiritual belief, which is completely different from the stability achieved by Chen Xi by relying on material abundance and spiritual fullness.

“Rome’s strength lies in its grandeur, the Arc de Triomphe, the Legion of Eagle Emblem, the grand tribute of the Senate, and the power of the empire. But fundamentally and in detail, Rome has many shortcomings and flaws, even fatal weaknesses. Of course, this is just talk, because these shortcomings and weaknesses have existed for a long time and Rome is still standing on the earth, so we can assume that they do not exist.” Cyprian raised his index finger and explained to Sima Yi with a smile.

As I said, even if you can find ten thousand reasons for the other party's failure, as long as the other party is still winning, your so-called reasons for failure are bullshit.

The Roman Empire existed in this way. Its fundamental problems, internal contradictions, institutional flaws, etc. were not only known to Rome, but also to the Han Dynasty. However, as long as Rome stood in the Mediterranean, everyone would think that it was a powerful empire.

During the autumn military service, when the Government Affairs Office was not too busy, Guo Jia and others would discuss the situation in Rome. They could point out a lot of problems with Rome and find countless shortcomings, and the existence of these things was also facts.

But Rome just exists, standing proudly on the earth, and can even pat its chest and call itself one of the two lighthouses of the world, as if those countless shortcomings do not exist at all.

"What are you trying to explain by suddenly telling me this?" Sima Yi frowned and looked at Cyprian. He was already very familiar with Cyprian and realized that the other party had superb qualifications in system construction and organizational operation, but he did not understand why Cyprian suddenly brought this up.

"I just want you to understand one fact, that is, your cousin is very strong, completely beyond your cognition. What you see of him is only your cognition, not all of him." Cyprian said this with an extremely solemn expression, "When you told me before, I thought he was the pillar of heaven crawling on the earth, but after I came..."

When he said this, Cyprian pursed his lips, as if he was organizing his words, and finally said slowly, "The term 'Lonely Moon in the Sky' is very interesting, but in the words of most of you, I feel that this is a description of him, but from the facts I have seen, I think this term is actually more like a nickname, or to be more direct, a straightforward description."

Sima Yi couldn't help but be stunned, then looked at Cyprian very seriously. He had already accepted the fact that Cyprian was stronger than himself. This was not a humiliation, but a more realistic recognition of himself. He was also a monster.

However, when such a monster told him so seriously that "Gu Yue Ling Kong" was a description that was almost a nickname rather than an adjective, Sima Yi trembled inexplicably.

"You are focusing too high. You are looking at this prosperous age, at the magnificent things created by that guy, the Wanxiang Temple, the Mingtang, the magnificent Chang'an City, the Chida Road that runs through Jizhou, and the huge palaces along Jizhou. These are indeed magnificent and are enough to prove the power and knowledge of an empire!" Cyprian said softly.

Sima Yi's eyes began to droop, he already knew what Cyprian was going to say.

"But even for the Wanxiang Temple, it only collects a tax of one hundred coins from each person. Is that difficult? Not to mention for an empire, even for a small country like in Africa, or even a tribe, the tribe does not need forced exploitation, and can scrape out several times that much money from each person in a year." Cyprian looked at Sima Yi calmly and said.

"While your cousin was doing all this, he also extended his power to the people. It is difficult to enrich the people. This is a challenge and even a rebellion against the system." Cyprian was even a little cold when he said this. "However, your cousin not only did it, but also did it very well and continued to improve. I even suspect that he has further operations."

"Zhongda, you are too far away from your cousin. To the extent that the Marquis Chen you are describing is not the real Marquis Chen." Cyprian said with a sigh, "He is so powerful that he has reversed certain rules. The existence of human nature will lead to the concentration of public power in society, and the concentration of public power will inevitably lead to the concentration of wealth. But do you know what your cousin did?"

Cyprian also realized this in the official history, so he imposed institutional restrictions on the church, cutting off the further concentration of public power at the root, and then reducing the level of exploitation. Therefore, he saw Chen Xi's operations more clearly than others and could better understand what Chen Xi had done.

Similarly, precisely because he could see clearly what Chen Xi had done from this perspective, Cyprian lamented that in Sima Yi's eyes, Chen Xi was actually just a shadow projected by Chen Xi.

"But it's normal. The empire is this kind of magical thing." When Sima Yi realized what Chen Xi had reversed, Cyprian sneered and said, "There are always some people who can do things that are absolutely impossible in theory."

"Are there other people who did the same thing as him?" Sima Yi looked at Cyprian in surprise.

"Read more books, Zhongda." Cyprian sighed, "Although it's not the same thing, the existence of the Roman Empire itself was achieved by challenging certain rules."

It is impossible for an empire to be democratic, and it is impossible for an empire and a parliament to coexist, at least from an institutional point of view. After all, one is a dictatorship and the other is democracy. But after Augustus risked his life, the empire and the parliament coexisted, even if it was an aristocratic parliament and even if the emperor was only the first citizen in name, you can tell whether the coexistence was successful.

This approach of making the impossible possible is what Cyprian called challenging the rules and gaining victory. All subsequent Western systems and laws have been fundamentally constrained by this set of rules. Although they are not the best, they have their own advantages as they have survived to this day.

Sima Yi lowered his head and thought, some things are too common, you don’t even know how to ask questions when you see them. The only ones who can ask the question of why are those who have seen something different, while some things that have existed since ancient times cannot be asked by people in this circle.

"I was planning to introduce you to him, but I didn't expect you to admire him so much." Sima Yi said with some emotion, "I was originally planning to bring you over. With your arrogant attitude, you would definitely be beaten up by him, and maybe even your heart would collapse. I didn't expect you to admire him so much. This would be meaningless."

"Let me make two points first. First, I am not arrogant all the time. I just don't want to communicate with idiots. Second, I respect and want to learn from the powerful. Even if I don't agree with the other person's way of dealing with people, I will show due respect." Cyprian glanced at Sima Yi, and these words made Sima Yi feel a little heartbroken.

"It's just that there are not many people in the world who are stronger than you, right?" Sima Yi said unhappily.

"No, there are still some. The senators who really work in the Roman Senate are all strong and worthy of respect. Their strength may be due to age, but strong is strong." Cyprian shook his head and said, "So you don't need to remind me that I don't respect you. I just don't like to hear you talk about certain things."

"So, in your opinion, what do you think of everything my cousin is building now?" Sima Yi glared at Cyprian unhappily when he heard this, but he didn't want to argue with him on this point, so he changed the subject.

"Very good, very great, but if I tell you some things, you may not think it is a problem, or even take it for granted." Cyprian said with a smile, "But if I tell it to that person, he should know what I am asking."

Sima Yi felt a flame rising in his chest, but given Cyprian's habits, he would definitely not tell him since he said so.

"Zhongda, actually you are not suitable to be in the Yuan family. You should follow your cousin. Although I have never met him, from what I know, he should be willing to support you. Besides, some things require practice. After learning to a certain level, they are useless." Cyprian said to Sima Yi seriously.

"Then why are you in the Yuan family?" Sima Yi suppressed his annoyance and asked Cyprian indifferently, "If I am not suitable for the Yuan family, then you are even less suitable, right? With your intelligence, if you return to Rome, even if you can't sit in those high positions that are exclusive to the Claudius family, at least you can be among the top ten."

"The organizational framework of Rome is already complete. It would be difficult for me to challenge the Roman system if I went there, unless I am willing to rebuild a system outside of the existing Roman organization and then gradually overthrow the existing system or integrate with the existing system." Cyprian shook his head and said, "Otherwise, the upper limit of my abilities is only the upper limit of the Roman system."

"Well, just like the one you see now, the upper limit of what he can show is not his own upper limit, but the upper limit that can be shown under the constraints of the current environment. There are only so many points for a test paper." Cyprian chuckled and pointed in the direction of Chen Xi.

Cyprian was actually sitting not far from Chen Xi, but now was not the time for him to go to Chen Xi to ask questions. Although he had come to the Han Dynasty, seen a lot, and understood a lot, relying on his vision and innate aptitude for organizational structure operation and system construction, he had seen no less than those old men who had been watching Chen Xi for more than ten years, but he still had time to learn more.

"Aren't you afraid that everything you have built will be denied in the end? You should know that the Yuan family itself has its own system, and you can't overturn it casually." Sima Yi frowned and looked at Cyprian. Although he already understood why Cyprian, who had no loyalty at all, stayed in the Yuan family until now and didn't want to leave at all, but this reason alone was far from enough.

Cyprian glanced at Sima Yi without giving an answer, but the confidence in that look made Sima Yi understand why - everything I have built will not be so easily disintegrated. Even if the Yuan family has its own system, in the future, I will be the leader.

"You are really conceited." Sima Yi said in a low voice.

"We can wait for the test of time." Cyprian said with a smile.

"In fact, even if I rebuild an operating organization outside of Rome's existing system and continue my system, I believe that I will be the final winner. It's just that there is no suitable carrier. In addition, the current situation of the Yuan family is really suitable. And I believe that my framework system will counterattack back to Rome after thousands of years. The Yuan family may not be able to defeat Rome, but I will defeat them." Cyprian held his head high, his eyes filled with strong self-confidence.

Sima Yi was stunned when he saw Cyprian being so proud, as if he saw his former self.

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