Chapter 6722 There is some hope

Chapter 6722 There is some hope

The relationship between Liu Bei and Kong Rong was established when the Eighteen Princes were fighting against Dong Zhuo. Although the two sides had less contact afterwards, Liu Bei was a man of loyalty and Kong Rong had never done anything immoral, so the relationship between the two sides has always been good.

This is also the reason why Liu Bei was reluctant to step in when he saw that the Yuan and Yang families were hunting down Kong Rong. After all, the cause and effect of this matter are now very clear. No matter what you say, it cannot change the fact that Kong Rong relied on his identity to get black gold and black equipment.

As the founder of the current rules, Liu Bei must abide by some basic rules. However, it would not be a good idea to ask Liu Bei to help with such a clear matter. It would be better to let Chen Xi go. After all, Chen Xi can handle the matter from another standpoint, and Liu Bei believes that Chen Xi can handle it very well, even better than if he himself were to handle it.

"So Wen Ju was caught after all." Liu Bei sighed and said, the story of Kong Rong stealing equipment from black people had spread widely, and Liu Bei had heard about it.

"It's okay. The core issue now is not Kong Changshi. Yuan Yang captured Kong Changshi more to break the deadlock." Chen Xi shook his head and explained the whole possible calculation to Liu Bei, which made Liu Bei stunned.

"This is how it should be done roughly. I don't know the details, after all, I haven't paid much attention to this matter." Chen Xi thought for a while and said, but according to his speculation as an outsider, this is basically the case.

"Will the Wang family really not be dealt with by the Yuan family if they do this?" Liu Bei said with some concern. Liu Bei still had a good impression of the Wang family. After all, Wang Yun's leap also maintained the face of the Han Dynasty. This was also the key to whether the three idiots were traitors to the Han Dynasty or ministers. Clearing the court of evildoers was based on this logic. But on the other hand, the Wang Yun incident had a great impact on Liu Bei.

"No, the Yuan family's opponents are not just the Wang family. In the current situation, if the Yuan family really takes action, their opponents will become all the aristocratic families. This is actually a prisoner's dilemma set by the Wang family for the Yuan and Yang families. It would be best if the Yang and Wang families could join forces to hold back the Runan Yuan family. If not, the Yuan family will find that all the aristocratic families are against it." Chen Xi said with a sigh.

The Wang family has set up this game very well, with one thing leading to another. If they had not stepped into it at the beginning, there would still be room for breaking it. But now that they have been trapped in it, it would be too difficult to break it. It is true that the Yuan family has top wise men such as Xun Chen, Xu You, and Gao Rou, but it will be very troublesome to break the deadlock now that they are trapped in it.

"The losers will only be the Yuan family or the Yang family. Of course, I think the Yuan family is more likely to lose." Chen Xi looked up and thought for a while while sitting in the carriage. "The idea of ​​suppressing the Yuan family has become the mainstream idea of ​​the Central Asian families. It's just that there was no good reason before. Now that the Yuan family is trapped in the game, the other families are not fools. It's self-evident who they will stand with."

They are all thousand-year-old foxes, what Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio are you talking about? The reason why Chen Xi doesn't want these thousand-year-old families to hang around in the Han Dynasty is because if these people are in the court, it will take up a lot of Chen Xi's energy. Even if Chen Xi's open schemes are very powerful and he can still control the general situation, and he has Jia Xu and Li You to help him when he plays dirty, it is impossible for him to lose.

But as long as this group of people are still in the country, they will give you some things that distract your energy, so it is good for everyone to pry them out and let them work hard for a better future.

"Is that so?" Although Liu Bei felt that this operation was somewhat unscrupulous, after thinking carefully about the situations of the major families, Liu Bei felt that Chen Xi's idea was indeed correct.

"What role does Wen Ju play in this?" Liu Bei asked casually while directing the driver to the destination.

"To some extent, Kong Changshi is already the winner." Chen Xi said with a sigh. Half of the people related to animal husbandry have been shipped away. Even if they have not reached New Zealand, they have arrived in Southeast Asia. They can be said to have put the money in their pockets. There is no point for Yuan Yang to pursue these people. Their main focus now is actually on how to deal with the three kings.

To put it bluntly, not to mention the fact that the three kings tricked Kong Rong into gaining intellectual power, just the fact that the three kings did not produce any talents at Chang'an University and now they have gotten something for nothing, the Yuan family, as the current leader of the aristocratic families, must rush up and attack the Wang family, otherwise how can they keep their position as the leader?

After all, Kong Rong was the president of the school. When Chang'an University was established, the Kong family also contributed manpower and effort. Logically, the Kong family should get a portion of the talents cultivated. Now it is just a matter of quantity. Compared to the issue of quantity, the Yuan family must now solve the problem of how the Wang family could become something out of nothing. This is very important.

"For Kong Changshi, the most he can do is resign as vice-president and step down as clan leader. There won't be too many troubles. I even suspect that Kong Changshi had prepared himself mentally before doing this." Chen Xi said with a sigh, "It would be best if we win by joining forces with Wang's family. If we lose, we can still retreat. If it weren't for the Wang family, the people sent to New Zealand would probably be pursued by the Yuan family with the help of Sun's family. But now..."

Now that the money has been put in the pocket, the Yuan family has no intention of looking for that group of people. They have to find a way to get the hacked people from the Wang family first. After all, this precedent cannot be set.

"In that case, that's all good." Liu Bei nodded slightly, feeling much more relieved about this matter. From the perspective of a pure friend and Han minister, Liu Bei still hoped that Wang and Kong Rong would win.

"The Yuan family is too powerful. The major aristocratic families will not want it to continue to develop like this." Chen Xi said very directly, "It has reached this point. If the Yuan family continues to develop at a high speed, the aristocratic families will also have to consider their own pressure, especially the top aristocratic families. They didn't have a father above them before. The Yuan family is obviously now in this position. They are not stupid."

"No wonder you wanted to pry all these guys out." Liu Bei sighed. The more he knew about the major families, the more he understood why these guys could stand proudly in the world. When morality was needed, they were moral role models. When morality was not needed, they could decisively create a moral vacuum. This kind of unscrupulous behavior alone was not something an ordinary family could do.

Chen Xi was helpless after hearing this. He had no choice but to pry all the top Han families to Central Asia. After all, it was better to let these people get out and cause trouble for other things than to keep them in the country to cause trouble. At least it would reduce some difficulties for Chen Xi.

"This doesn't seem to be the route to Lantian County, right?" Chen Xi looked out the window and said in surprise, "It feels like we're heading to the mountains."

"It's to a small village under Lantian County. You'll know when you get there." Liu Bei said with a smile, "I think you'll be very happy."

Lantian County is not too big, and Chen Xi was quite curious about what Liu Bei's so-called surprise was. Since he had nothing to do today, he decided to just wander around and followed Liu Bei to the village here.

As soon as Liu Bei's carriage arrived, a disabled old soldier came to pick him up.

"Liu Chang, haven't you gone to have your leg reattached yet? Didn't I tell you the last time I came here that Chang'an has developed the technology to treat disability and can reattach a leg to you?" Liu Bei frowned as he looked at Liu Chang, who was limping with the help of a prosthesis.

"It has been reported, but we have to wait in line. However, the doctor has already drawn blood from me and also measured my right leg. It's just that there are not enough staff right now, so we may have to wait until the 15th day of the twelfth lunar month this year. But it will be good to have a leg to use before the New Year." The old soldier, whom Liu Bei called Liu Chang, explained to Liu Bei with a smile.

"That's fine, just don't charge the money." Liu Bei asked Liu Chang.

"They only charged me a fee for blood collection and storage, and the rest was for me to sign the treatment documents. I roughly understood what was written, so there was no problem." Liu Chang thought for a while and said, "It cost about 60 coins, but I thought it would cost millions."

Liu Chang got this news from Liu Bei two months ago, and then he hurried to find someone to inquire. At that time, Liu Chang was ready to empty his coffin book, and his wife also agreed. As a result, he went back and found the person in charge of this matter, and it only cost 60 cents. Liu Chang found it incredible at the time. The doctor who drew blood may have explained it too many times, and pointed expressionlessly at the notice with three seals on it posted on the wall.

Liu Chang guessed and roughly understood the content of the announcement. It was basically that the country should provide this benefit to all veterans who have fought for the country, but the current output is not enough, so people need to queue up. After signing the document, please remember the time and take the post station's carriage to the hospital for treatment.

In short, the core is that you have made sacrifices for the country. Now the country can solve this problem and will not charge you any money. The sixty cents are for your physical examination and blood collection and preservation, not for treatment. There is no treatment cost for this thing.

Then the small words below mean that the newly reconnected arms and legs are relatively fragile, so please don't treat them recklessly. In case of injury, the doctor may not have enough time to reattach them to you. Please understand. In short, they can be cured, but after being cured, the new arms and legs need to be assimilated by the body's own strengthened super cells.

Liu Chang was very surprised by this. Even though he had great trust in the country, he still felt that he should find someone to inquire about such a major event. After all, these days there were many people who could survive with a broken arm on the battlefield, and those who could survive with a broken leg were all top veterans.

Although Liu Chang has less contact with those top veteran brothers because of his disability, and those veterans with healthy limbs don't know whether Liu Chang will feel inferior if they go to see him, but if he really wants to find someone, Liu Chang can still find him.

At that time, there were already dozens of veterans who had recovered from their disabilities in the rehabilitation center in Chang'an City. Liu Chang went to take a look and then asked those old guys. After confirming that they really did not charge any money, he put the paperwork away and waited in line for treatment.

No matter how anxious he was, he could still wait for a few months, and the announcement was very clear. The only problem with this thing was insufficient production, and it would take time to grow arms and legs, so Liu Chang went back to Lantian and waited. He didn't feel anything about the sixty cents that Liu Bei asked about. Let alone sixty cents, even if it was six hundred thousand cents, Liu Chang would have to pay it if he could, thinking about his own situation.

"I remember you said you didn't want money?" Liu Bei turned to look at Chen Xi, and then explained to Liu Chang casually, "You also know this person. You should have seen him when you were a personal guard."

Liu Chang nodded repeatedly. He also knew Chen Xi, but Chen Xi didn't know him.

"It's free to participate in the treatment, which means that the arm and leg connections are free, not the examination. The physical examination costs 60 coins." Chen Xi said unhappily, "I cancelled the hundreds of thousands of coins that Datou had."

"Wait, you've already cancelled those hundreds of thousands of coins, why are you still concerned about these few dozen coins?" Liu Bei looked as if he had seen a ghost, "Is that the part you're worried about?"

"Because the two things do not follow the same logic. Disability should be treated. After all, veterans have sacrificed their lives for the country, so it is a matter of course and no money will be charged. But a physical examination is a physical examination and it cannot be avoided." Chen Xi looked at Liu Chang and said seriously.

Just like you can be exempted from hundreds of thousands of dollars for a serious illness, but you will never be exempted from the few dollars for cold medicine. The former is in small quantities, even if it is a lot at one time, the total amount will not be too large. But the latter is small each time, but the quantity is large, and when the small amounts accumulate, it will be very exaggerated.

"Although I don't understand your logic, I think it's better to trust you on this matter. This is Liu Chang, the captain of the local militia and a part-time yamen runner in Lantian County. How many levels of smelting are you at now?" Liu Bei gave Chen Xi a formal introduction, then turned to look at Liu Chang and asked.

"The fifth level of smelting was the sixth level before, but I don't know what happened and one level collapsed." Liu Chang said helplessly. As for the treatment of the sixth and fifth level smelters, how should I put it? There are less than two hundred sixth level smelters in the country who can perform well, and there are nearly a thousand fifth level smelters. If the two sides really want to argue, there is a direct difference in treatment.

"That's quite impressive too. Those who can maintain the fifth level of smelting are all elites. If it weren't for his leg injury, he might have reached the sixth level." Chen Xi looked at the somewhat aged Liu Chang and roughly judged that he should be around forty-five or forty-six years old. He was not that old, and the aging was more of a psychological burden brought about by his disability.

According to Chen Xi's understanding during this period, many veterans who came to Chang'an to treat their disabilities, even those with the best mentality, would basically waste one or two years. Some veterans have even been trapped in a mentality that they cannot escape from since they became disabled.

In Liu Chang's situation, if he hadn't been disabled, with one or two years of continuous training, the sixth level of smelting might not collapse. But it's meaningless to say this now. If he can be cured, at his current age, and with the condition that he has reached the sixth level before, he will most likely be able to reach the sixth level before the age of fifty-one or fifty-two.

"Alas, if my leg hadn't been broken, I would have reached the sixth level at the age of 37, and I might even have been able to make a push for the seventh level. How could I possibly collapse?" Liu Chang led Liu Bei and Chen Xi into the village. When he heard Chen Xi's words, he felt a little regretful. It was obvious that after seeing a group of old men who had cured their disabilities and arranging a time for his own treatment, Liu Chang's mentality had mostly recovered. At least he would no longer get angry because of some words, and he became much more normal.

"Isn't there still a chance?" Liu Bei said with a smile, "I'll heal your leg by the end of the year. If you work hard, maybe you can reach the sixth level next year. Look at Ma Chen in the Chang'an Rehabilitation Center. He has accumulated a lot of experience and now he has reached the sixth level."

"Then I have to try my best?" Liu Chang said happily. Ma Chen was able to make great progress after his disability was cured, and he went from the fifth level to the sixth level. I, Liu Chang, should also try my best to reach the sixth level.

Liu Chang, Liu Bei and Chen Xi quickly entered his own yard, a large courtyard with three entrances, in the middle of the village. Although Liu Chang was indeed disabled, a guy who could perform the fifth-level smelting skill was only found once in tens of thousands of people, and sometimes there was only one in a whole county if you were unlucky. So his status in the local area was real.

In fact, compared to Refining Qi into Gang, the fifth level and above smelting is even less common in the local area. After all, Refining Qi into Gang can be practiced slowly among the people, but there is really no way to smelt it, and one can only go to the battlefield and kill hard, and force one's way forward. Therefore, the distribution of Refining Qi into Gang among the people is relatively reasonable. But the fifth level smelting is basically only in the military and is rarely seen among the people.

Even those who returned from military service would serve as county lieutenants, or as the chief of the local garrison, or as county lieutenants. There were very few who had no official position at all. After all, they were all killers with blood on their hands. On the other hand, when these people returned, no matter what, they all returned in glory.

One important reason why many disabled veterans of Gao Ronglian do not feel inferior is that after they return to their hometowns, their fellow villagers still respect them very much. After all, even though they are disabled, they can still do a lot of things, which gives them the feeling that only healthy people have.

"Of course, you can raise so many children." Chen Xi looked at Liu Chang coming in and six or seven cubs of different sizes rushed out. He was very satisfied with his job. After all, raising so many children these days requires a lot of money, food and supplies.

"We can only raise so many. If we have more, it might not be enough." Liu Chang said as he touched the head of a cub, while Liu Bei smiled and gave each of the cubs a small red envelope.

A group of children received the red envelopes and ran away again under the drive of Liu Chang. Then Liu Chang took Liu Bei into the yard. He saw a carpenter fiddling with a box in the yard. When he saw Liu Bei coming, he quickly saluted.

"Is it done?" Liu Bei asked Liu Chang's nephew Liu Ting, "You said it would only take two months. I calculated the time and it has been two months now. Is it done? And Liu Chang happened to be here today. I want to see how your thing is."

"Okay, okay." Liu Ting quickly replied, and then said to his uncle, "Uncle, I'll start next, and you use the method I taught you before."

Liu Chang nodded, and then a group of people moved into the inner room and put down the black cloth. After some operation, Liu Ting and Liu Chang successfully projected the video stored in the secret mirror onto the wall.

Although Chen Xi realized something when Liu Chang and others put down the black cloth, he was still very shocked when Liu Chang projected the contents of the secret mirror onto the wall and started playing. He had to admit that as long as he sowed enough seeds, there would always be some different results, such as his brother-in-law Fan Qin and Liu Ting in front of him.

Moreover, compared to Brother Fanqin's stuff, Liu Ting's stuff is obviously less difficult. It is actually just a projector, but the projection it plays is dynamic.

"How is it, Zichuan?" Liu Bei watched the projection on the wall finish playing, and turned to ask Chen Xi, "I saw Liu Ting tinkering with this thing here before, and I thought it was very interesting. When he demonstrated it, I knew that this was what you had always needed. How is it, not bad, right? Now the only problem is the sound, which cannot be solved."

"We have the image, and the sound can be supplemented later." Chen Xi said calmly, then looked at Liu Ting, "Did you graduate from a professional university?"

"No, I was too old, and I didn't pass when I took the exam. Luckily the teacher didn't mind me auditing the class, so I attended the optical ranging and imaging class for a while, and then I found that there seemed to be some interesting things in it, so I studied it for a while." Liu Ting said somewhat embarrassedly. The restraint that shouldn't be present in young people of this era was actually shown in Liu Ting.

"Speak nicely." Liu Chang patted Liu Ting and said, "This child is a little shy."

Chen Xi smiled when he heard this. Normally, in the Han Dynasty, there should be shy twenty-year-olds of this age, because children from poor families have to grow up early, and many of them have to think about what to eat when they are eight or nine years old. Liu Ting is the son of Liu Chang's brother, and his brother and sister-in-law died early. Liu Chang raised Liu Ting and never let Liu Ting suffer since he was a child.

This is just like how most college students in later generations are like children or domestic cats become kittens, because they have never been hit by the society.

Liu Ting also conforms to this logic, but it is precisely because of this logic that he has the time and energy to study these seemingly useless things. Those who can leave their names in history books are all children of aristocratic families. To put it bluntly, ordinary people are exhausted just by living, and they have no time to learn and improve.

"Very good." Chen Xi said slowly, "You can think of using pinhole imaging and refraction to project the image directly from a small hole to a large one. This simple operation..."

Now the only thing left for Brother Fanqin's things is to open them. The other steps are all useless. Liu Ting's operation plan has killed Brother Fanqin.

"Go to Chang'an University as an assistant professor next year, and study and teach at the same time." Chen Xi thought for a while and said, some things are unimaginable, but once you think of them, they are very simple. Liu Ting's operation made Chen Xi realize that there is some hope for the bottom layer.

Climb, climb, climb. I can’t get up at all during the holiday. I must update on time tomorrow!