Mythic version of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 6614 Synchronous progress
Zhuge Liang, who had not spoken much and only wanted to understand the matter but not get involved, felt relieved when he saw that this group of people had finally decided on the matter. He also had a very good impression of Liu Chan. Intelligence is only one aspect of a child's trait, and the ability to unite others is a more important trait than intelligence.

Zhuge Liang, who has read a lot of books from Chen Xi, quite agrees with the concept that human beings are a collective and society is a collective. One person alone cannot survive. Even a genius like Chen Zichuan needs a group of people to support each other to create miracles.

If he had to choose between individual intelligence and the ability to unite a group, Zhuge Liang chose the latter. As for the younger generations with the same talent as himself, they would make the same choice when they reach his age. Therefore, Zhuge Liang was not worried about how terrible Liu Yong's qualifications would be. In fact, if they really reached that level, it might not be a bad thing.

A kind elder brother and a gifted younger brother, with enough guidance, it is easier for the brothers to be friendly and respectful to each other.

"Then let Xiaozhi handle the relevant matters. However, Xiaozhi, I still have a suggestion. In fact, there is no need to do it so drastically. Even in the Wu family, those who choose to promote this matter are actually not the mainstream." Chen Xi said very seriously, "Even those who choose to promote this matter do not put all their hopes on this matter. In essence, they rely on this matter to gain benefits."

Fa Zheng nodded expressionlessly. He knew all this, but since it concerned the country's foundation, some ways of handling it had to demonstrate a firm collective will. After all, wavering on certain things would sow disaster for the future, and Fa Zheng did not want to leave such disaster behind.

Moreover, Fa Zheng, who is well versed in human hearts, knows very well what kind of monster will be produced if the idea of ​​the Prince of Jin becoming a vassal is mixed with the current mentality of the people in Ganges.

From Fa Zheng's point of view, even if Wu Yuan and Liu Yong had no idea about this matter, as long as they could be used in this way, they had to be dealt with from the root and cut off.

The extraordinary talents of Yang Hu, Lu Kang, Jiang Wei and others only magnified this fear. The only thing that really made Fa Zheng make up his mind was that someone spread rumors and made up lies about the prince.

No, spreading rumors is not terrible. What is terrible is that after these rumors are realized, they can indeed arouse people’s greed and bring huge benefits!

Adou is the next generation successor recognized by these people. Not to mention that Adou has not done anything that makes people dissatisfied so far. Even if he does, it should be these people who speak up and make other voices instead of the current behavior of going against Tiangang.

"Then let's put this matter to rest. The next thing is this." Guo Jia handed the battle report from Eastern Europe to Chen Xi. Chen Xi took the report with a look of surprise on his face.

"Is Odin still intensifying his dying struggle?" Li You had never seen this battle report before, so when he learned that this battle report came from Northern Europe, he couldn't help but feel a little curious.

"Odin tried to run away, but was blocked by Sun Bofu. After a fierce battle, Odin was blocked again." Chen Xi said concisely, "Even Odin realized that the Jiangdong officers led by Sun Bofu were soft persimmons. It was really ugly."

"Isn't this blocking the way back?" Jia Xu asked curiously.

"That's because Sun Bofu personally supervised the battle and actually killed the retreating officers." Chen Xi said solemnly, "He didn't kill the soldiers, but the officers. To some extent, Sun Bofu finally let go."

"It's not just because of Sun Bofu. When you mention this, we have to look at this thing together." Zhuge Liang reacted quickly, then quickly looked through the official documents and found a document reported from Southeast Asia. Of course, this document was required to be retained and released in September. It is still in the filing status, and this document was submitted by Zhou Yu.

Chen Xi took another document handed over by Zhuge Liang, opened it and took a look, then he understood why Sun Ce had only taken formal action now.

Although Chen Xi also considered that Zhou Yu's separation from Sun Ce before, letting Sun Ce take the Jiangdong officers to Northern Europe, while he stayed in Southeast Asia to carry out military reforms, was in order to eliminate the family power of the Jiangdong family.

However, no one expected that after Zhou Yu took ruthless action, he would directly demolish the entire Jiangdong family.

After Sun Ce brought the Jiangdong generals to Northern Europe and cut off these guys' communications with Southeast Asia, Zhou Yu began drastic reforms.

That's right. Different from Chen Xi's reform, what Zhou Yu is doing now is what the reformists do. Not only has he fundamentally solved the constraints of the Jiangdong family on their own power, he has also basically completed the all-round enfeoffment order against the Jiangdong family. Relying on the numerous islands and abundant output in Southeast Asia, he has completely dismantled the Jiangdong family into pieces.

After the Jiangdong officers who followed Sun Ce left, the Jiangdong families without their patriarchs had no ability to stop Zhou Yu at all. Even if they wanted to contact their patriarchs, they were basically doomed by the unilateral intelligence blockade from Eastern Europe.

The Jiangdong families had become accustomed to the indulgence of Sun Ce and Zhou Yu over the years and had never considered how ruthless Zhou Yu could be. So when Sun Ce took them from Southeast Asia to Eastern Europe, they only took routine precautions.

In other words, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu have always been very good in the eyes of the Jiangdong family, especially Zhou Yu, who is really their biological mother. Moreover, Zhou Yu, who also comes from a super wealthy family, has her own special status in the Jiangdong family.

In addition, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu have worked hard over the years to pull these people up from ordinary local nobles to the level of medium to large family backgrounds. These families still have some genuine trust in Sun Ce and Zhou Yu.

Of course, this trust means that when Sun Ce and Zhou Yu ask for money or people, they can support them with all their strength, but when Sun Ce and Zhou Yu fight on land, they can't win and have to run away. But you can't say that this group of people didn't provide enough support in terms of manpower and financial resources.

On the contrary, except for those random turmoils on the battlefield where they felt they could not win and would die, this group of people were the die-hard brothers of Sun Ce and Zhou Yu at other times. They were the ones who truly followed Sun Ce and Zhou Yu and were willing to use all their resources to support these two people when necessary.

In other words, apart from sending yourself to die, we will fully support you in all other aspects, including money, food and people, as long as you need it, we can negotiate.

After all, the Jiangdong aristocratic families are a bit useless, but they have also faced the reality. They can only accomplish anything under the leadership of Sun Ce and Zhou Yu. As for why they are not led by Liu Bei and Chen Xi, it is because Liu Bei and Chen Xi look down on these bastards from the bottom of their hearts.

In fact, whether in terms of size or vision, the Jiangdong family is relatively weak among the family groups. However, the local feudal thinking that has been passed down by the Jiangdong family since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period makes the behavioral logic of this group of people seem less normal.

The simplest point is that Chen Xi, who could not accept this kind of thinking, would have handled the situation with a blank expression if Zhou Yu had not been there to steady him.

It can be said that the existence of Sun Ce and Zhou Yu allowed the Jiangdong family to enjoy several years of good times, and allowed their originally weak foundation to be deepened to the level of the current medium-to-large family. Even though there are still many shortcomings, relying on the islands in Southeast Asia, they have increased a lot of potential out of thin air.

However, this was all before the capsize of Qunu City. After the capsize of Qunu City, Zhou Yu accepted Chen Xi's sponsorship and began to clean up the problems of the Jiangdong aristocratic families.

It's just that their own officers were all in Southeast Asia before, and these officers were basically from Jiangdong families. It was obvious that Sun Ce and Zhou Yu were a bit conservative when dealing with them, but this conservatism should be intended to make these Jiangdong families let down their guard for now.

After Sun Ce took these generals to Eastern Europe and Zhou Yu cut off the transmission of information, he began to carry out drastic reforms.

First he crushed his own family, then his Sun family, and then he broke up the Jiangdong family into pieces in a very short period of time. He released all the ambitious illegitimate sons and servants within the major families, and with the endorsement of the state, he quickly broke them up into several clans.

As a result, the islands that were originally granted to the Jiangdong family were also quickly cut into pieces in this way. As the saying goes, no matter how friendly the brothers are, when faced with huge wealth, some things are inevitable.

Isn't it an important point that allowed the Enfeoffment Order to be implemented back then that, except for the eldest son who wanted to inherit the entire family property, the other illegitimate sons who originally inherited nothing, when they saw the opportunity to legally obtain a fiefdom, did not realize that such behavior would weaken their own family at all.

There is no other way. I have to exchange something that does not belong to me for something that belongs to me. Is this weakening? What the hell. There are people who work for the overall situation and grand narratives, but there are many ordinary people in this world who live a mediocre life. Most people hope to live a good life before considering the great cause of the world.

If the heads of the Jiangdong families and the officers and commanders who controlled the family power were still alive, it would not be so easy for Zhou Yu to implement this policy. Even if there were illegitimate sons and distant branches in these families who wanted to divide the family power, it would not be easy to divide it with these people in power.

Just like what Old Man Hu said to Hu Yan, the aristocratic families were the force that protected them when they were weak, but when their own families grew to a certain extent, they would become the tentacles through which the aristocratic families drew strength, and no matter how the tentacles developed, they could never surpass the main body.

Some people may feel that this kind of growth is already very comfortable, but most people are ambitious, especially those branches that have remained unchanged for more than ten years or even dozens of years, who have watched the main family prosper and prosper, and who they can never achieve no matter what, will have different emotions.

Such emotions are either suppressed or hidden in the heart waiting to be released at some point, but no matter which one it is, as long as such emotions exist, there is an opportunity to provoke.

When talking about Anding Hu, didn't Old Man Hu express his gratitude for Anding Hu's help when they were in dire straits? Didn't he also say frankly that without Anding Hu, he would not have been able to live with these children until now and live a decent life?

But when the Hu family had the opportunity to make further progress, Old Man Hu did not hesitate at all when he gave up on settling the Hu family. After all, we are all adults. A favor is a favor, but it would be too much to think that a favor would bind my family for a lifetime. When I didn't have this opportunity or this strength, I just accepted it. It was only right for me to work for your family with the treatment you gave me.

But now that I have a new opportunity and see new hope, why should I be bound by your family? Am I a fool?

No, of course he is not a fool. A guy who can get to this point, even if he has not received the education of a noble family, has his own judgment, his own rough heart, and naturally his own ideas. If there is no chance, he won't say it, but if there is a chance, can he really watch it?

What a joke, unless one is completely enslaved, who doesn’t have the desire to be superior?
They are forced by the master family to absorb nutrients and have to consider everything for the master family. That's because the master family is more powerful and can protect them. They can live like this because the master family is blocking them and leading them to eat other people. After all, in any era, according to the logic of what you eat replenishes what you gain, only by eating other people can you become a superior person. It is difficult for ordinary people to do this and they must be led by someone to do it.

This is also why once you have an organization, as long as the organization still remembers you, as a mediocre person, you will live better than an independent individual.

Of course, this is for the general public. For the truly powerful, for those individuals who can covet the top positions in the organization, after being stuck to a certain level, it is better to go out and work alone. However, any organization has its own rules and constraints, and it is not so easy to quit if you want to.

Let's take Old Man Hu as an example. Decades ago, when there was nothing but a surname, relying on Anding Hu family could bring huge benefits. Then you could have children, eat Anding Hu family's rice, get Anding Hu family's clan education for free, etc. These are all benefits.

However, having enjoyed so many benefits and relying on his amazing reproductive ability, he has dozens of male members and has formed a huge branch. Even if there are no senior bureaucrats, relying on the centripetal force of family members and his own surname, he can form a medium to upper strength branch within the Hu family. Old Man Hu needs to be cautious when trying to leave Anding Hu family.

Because Old Man Hu's strength has reached a level that the family needs to pay attention to. Twenty or thirty Xiliang Iron Cavalrymen of the same family name and surname are also a very terrifying force among the less than five hundred absolutely trusted family members of the An-Ding Hu family. What's more, among these five hundred absolutely trusted family members, many are not members of the same family name and surname, but so-called family-born children.

Therefore, it can be said that the branch to which Old Man Hu belongs has already occupied a power of one-tenth of the An Ding Hu family. However, after the other party realized that their son-in-law had achieved enlightenment against the will of heaven, they wanted to vote for his son-in-law without hesitation.

After all, who wants to be a branch when they can be the main family? The benefits obtained by the branches are always the ones left after the main family has screened them.

We are all adults, not fools, okay? Let’s talk about feelings and interests. No one wants to hurt feelings or money!

Therefore, without the suppression of the clan leader's power, Zhou Yu personally released Tui En. The Jiangdong nobles were nothing. The reputation Zhou Yu had accumulated over the years was absolutely trustworthy. Since the other party dared to speak, there were too many people willing to follow Zhou Yu to gamble.

In addition, most of the patriarchs and family heads of the Jiangdong families are now Sun Ce's subjects, and the title has long been attached to Sun Ce and Zhou Yu. The reason why these two did not have any thoughts before was because the Jiangdong families were useful and there was no major trouble, so they just fooled around like this.

After all, even Chen Xi has this kind of weird thinking, that is, when a framework system can still run autonomously, no matter what fun the other party has, don't touch it.

Chen Xi and Li You, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu actually discovered the operating bug of Jiangdong Family very early on. But even according to the real logic, after discovering the system bug, as long as the system is still running smoothly, the best solution is to ignore everything and let it go, and then deal with it after a real problem occurs. Sun Ce and Zhou Yu are actually handling it according to this logic.

After all, the less trouble one can have, the less trouble one can have. No one wants to risk their life.

However, they did not expect that such a big joke would happen when the system bug exploded, so much so that when they were fixing the bug later, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu had to take drastic measures to ensure that such trouble would not occur again in the future.

As for the solutions to fix this bug, there were many from the beginning, but each solution had its own shortcomings. After several rounds of evaluation, Zhou Yu finally chose a plan of separation that was almost like the Enfeoffment Order, which directly broke up the large families. In this way, the troops would naturally fall apart.

Taking into account that the Jiangdong aristocratic families are experts in internal strife, then deepening the level of internal strife and transforming the original internal strife between aristocratic families into a struggle within the aristocratic families will at least solve the problem at the level of Sun Ce and Zhou Yu. As for the problems caused by the extension of internal strife, the same thing applies. As long as it can run and the system does not self-destruct, then this is normal operation and running-in, and it is not a problem.

Anyway, what Sun Ce and Zhou Yu need is the strength of Jiangdong, not the concerted efforts of Jiangdong. The latter is probably only possible when they are being hammered by Celian, a boatload of people die at a time, and everyone is on the boat. It is impossible to happen at any other time.

After all, internal strife is the nature of human beings. Zhou Yu's approach can only be said to have changed the way of internal strife, rather than eliminated it, but it is a good method.

Slipped away, slipped away