Chapter 6739 Anxious Parties

Chapter 6739 Anxious Parties

As long as you have the correct understanding of some things, the difficulty of dealing with them will be reduced a lot. Many times, what gives people a headache is that the tiger is trying to eat the sky but has no idea where to start. As long as you have the right direction, what you need to do next is to move forward along the established correct route.

Theoretically, as long as you are exposed to the most basic concepts such as left and right, front and back, simple addition and subtraction, and the direction of your name, you will be able to learn them over time.

In the third century, in terms of education, especially things that can be learned by oneself in theory, there are still many people who don’t know about it. There is actually only one reason: there is no such environment at all. Everyone is illiterate, so where can you get learning by observation and environment?

You're dreaming, aren't you?
Therefore, Nangong Xue's suggestion at that time gave Chen Xi a very correct direction, which led to his subsequent efforts to develop opera and reduce the difficulty of playing the secret mirror as much as possible, in order to replicate the large-scale literacy operations from the 1950s to the 1970s.

However, the latter is too difficult. Until now, the problem has been barely solved with the help of my eldest cousin and Liu Ting. As for the former, opera has existed as early as the Shang Dynasty, but the early opera was more of Nuo opera, which is the so-called acting out ghosts and gods, performing mythological stories, performing ghost dances to worship gods, and driving away plagues and epidemics, as well as entertaining dances to express peace.

Therefore, the early Nuo opera had a very clear intention. The core idea was to worship gods, not to perform, let alone teach and entertain. However, after thousands of years of development, by the Han Dynasty, opera had developed on its own, but it had not yet broken away from its previous constraints.

When Chen Xi was performing opera during his time at Mount Tai, it was purely for entertainment in his spare time and to build some so-called spiritual civilization. Later, after he had control over several states, he performed opera more to take in orphans and find a way out for this group of people.

After all, it was the end of the Han Dynasty. Forget it, let’s not talk about the end of the Han Dynasty. Most of the time in the feudal era, adult males basically had a way out as long as they were not sick, but women were different, especially orphans. They didn’t have any skills, and no one would even hire them to work. Basically, the only way out was to sell themselves.

In fact, let alone the feudal era, even in later generations, as long as adult males are not sick, do not indulge in pornography, gambling, or drugs, and are normal people, they can survive no matter what, and they can live well.

This kind of good will not change because of the level of your degree, but specifically refers to the fact that at the same level, the social activities of adult men can naturally support themselves while supporting others.

So if an orphan is raised until he is fourteen or fifteen years old, he will be taken to a construction site to work as a laborer and start learning, so he will always have a way to make a living. But if an orphan is raised until she is fourteen or fifteen years old, Chen Xi really didn't have any good arrangements except to marry her off, as the textile and animal husbandry industries had not yet taken off.

After all, even if you registered all the people and allocated land to the orphan girls, except for a few strong women who were capable of cultivating the land, most of the orphans were normal girls. No one would think that an orphan girl could cultivate and sow 30 acres of land without a ox.

So Chen Xi's idea of ​​setting up the orphanage at that time was actually to give away wives. No one wanted them anyway, so he just gave them away. As for the issue of respect or not, that was something that needed to be considered in the future. When it really came to this, life and death were the things that needed to be considered.

After all, in feudal society there really wasn't much mental work that didn't require effort, or more directly, there wasn't much idle work that could be assigned to women. Even weaving and spinning, the easiest routine work of those days, required considerable effort, and having a sore back after working all day was no joke.

It was not until Nangong Xue, a big opera lover, suggested to Chen Xi that he should get into opera, which opened up other ways out. After all, conventional trades really could not accommodate so many people, but an industry that carried out mass literacy for the Han Dynasty could easily accommodate tens of thousands of people.

Although tens of thousands of people are not a large number, tens of thousands of jobs are not a small number, and compared to other professions, this is already a rare and easy job in the same era.

With this idea in mind and Chen Xi's active promotion, the military has been given relatively strict management standards over the past decade of development. It can be implemented according to time points, and it is normal for the random inspections to be carried out to this extent, to be honest.

Of course, performing some operas in the army's spare time, in addition to providing education, can also ease the atmosphere to a certain extent and ensure the morale of the army. The only drawback is that the actors are basically all women now, and there will often be personnel loss during the performance.

Especially when acting for some military units that have stationed areas or garrisons, if you stay there for a long time, it is very likely that you will have some love stories with the local soldiers. Although you cannot get married on the spot, once you retreat, the soldiers will apply for a fight and you can hold a wedding when you return.

This is also the reason why there are new people in the opera circle every year, but the overall scale is maintained at this level. There is neither large-scale expansion nor rapid shrinkage. To put it bluntly, there are people coming in every year, and there are also people graduating, getting married and running away every year. In short, the liquidity is quite good.

The earliest kind of opera troupe composed entirely of gods now doesn't even have a single member left, as they are all married. Oh, and there's even the mistress of a certain dog official, who is directly a member of the opera with spiritual talents.

In short, it is cause for celebration. Some people have found suitable employers, some have achieved education to a certain extent, and some can support themselves without relying on others during this period. It can be said that several birds with one stone have been achieved.

However, what seemed like a win-win situation to Chen Xi was incredible in the eyes of Tavasdes. In ancient times, education was not that easy.

As a person who was born into the Parthian royal family, Tavasdes knew very well that not all of the palace guards were literate. In these days, the ability to read or not could even represent one's origin. The soldiers of the Han Dynasty might not know much, but being semi-illiterate was also progress!
"Oh, the more I think about it, the more headache I get." Tavasdes looked at the guards on both sides and couldn't help but sigh. Whenever he had free time, he would try his best to impart his knowledge to this group of guards, but he was not sure how effective it would be. After all, he was only one person, and some things had to be told several times to be effective, and where did he get so much time?

"Military advisor, are you having a headache because of the rain?" Gondofa, the commander of Tavasdes' personal guards, asked with some confusion when he heard his words.

Although they are from the Sulen family, Gondofa and Tavasdes get along quite well. In the past, when both the Sulen clan and the royal family existed, the two would not be as calm and peaceful as they are now when they meet. Not fighting directly is already an improvement.

"It's a lot more troublesome than this. I'm thinking about the Han Dynasty." Tavasdes sighed and said, "The more I think about it, the more I feel that the Han Dynasty is powerful in all aspects and without blind spots."

"We are just a flank army. We just need to do our own thing." Gondofa said casually, with a look of lying down without any goals.

"If we think like this, we can only hold Kabul in the future. There is a saying in the Han Dynasty that those who take the best will get the middle, and those who take the middle will get the worst. If we don't follow the highest goal, in our current situation, if we get the worst, I'm afraid we won't even be able to hold Kabul." Tawasdes shook his head and said, "If we want to make progress, we must always be prepared and keep working hard."

"But the overall historical process is more important than our efforts. If we could solve the problem by hard work alone, we would not have come to this point." Gondofar said somewhat disappointedly. Didn't Ardashir work hard? He worked very hard. Wasn't he talented? He was very talented, but he was stuck in a corner.

"Just say this to me. If you tell others, I might punish you. I remember you were not like this before." Tavasdes stared at Gondofa. If his personal guard commander thought like this, then he really needed to think carefully about what the army was thinking.

"The more I learn, the more I find the Han Dynasty terrifying." Gondofa sighed and said, "I specifically looked up the detailed information about the war between the Han Dynasty and the Kushan Empire. Although there were many problems of the Kushan Empire itself, the Han Dynasty was undoubtedly powerful. It was too powerful, so powerful that it made people despair. Many of the Kushan Empire's efforts were just struggles."

Gondor Fahui and Tavasdes said these things because he really wanted to move forward along his ideal in the beginning, to recover Anxi and reclaim the old land, so he deliberately tried to understand his opponent, but the more he understood, the more desperate he became. Some things, knowing is even worse than not knowing. At least ignorance will not make you afraid, and the more you know, the more afraid you will be.

Gondofa's determination was very firm, but no matter how firm his determination was, he would feel despair and fear after seeing the strength comparison and population base of both sides.

Before watching: I am looking for each other's weaknesses, learning from each other's strengths, so that we can surpass each other.

After watching: Is this an opponent we can handle? Why not just vote!
In fact, this is the reason why many people in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s were so confused when they saw the situation in foreign countries that they decided to surrender. To put it bluntly, it is because the gap is too big. When they were ignorant before, they could still maintain their confidence, but now that they have a certain amount of knowledge and can realize the difference, they feel even more desperate.

This is the case with Gondofa. He has enough knowledge and enough faith, but after watching the film, he feels that life is meaningless.

"Who, when taking that step to overthrow the old dynasty and establish a new one, dares to say that he is the unique savior?" Tavasdes sighed as he looked at the obviously confused Gondofar. This is the terrifying thing about the Han Dynasty. The more you know, the more confused you will be about yourself. To put it bluntly, Tavasdes felt that even if he assisted Ardashir in recovering the old land, the lives of the Parthian survivors might not be better than they are now.

Even though Chen Xi often ridiculed the Central Asian families for being useless, with Chen Xi's support, the development of Central Asia was clearly moving forward. In other words, even with all kinds of twists and turns, the quality of life of the Parthian survivors was slowly improving overall. The quality of life of the Parthian survivors who were willing to join the major families was significantly improved, unless they encountered a locust plague.

This is the important reason why the Central Asian families can stand firm and maintain their rule. Different cultures, customs and habits, and even problems with language communication have indeed greatly increased the difficulty of ruling, but these are not fatal problems.

It's like an alien master parachuted down and gave you a system close to communism, which has been running for one-fifth of your life, and during this period he couldn't find any problems even with a critical eye.

Then the alien master said that he would continue to maintain the previous system and improve everyone's quality of life as much as possible. Will you disapprove of the alien master because he has some strange cultural systems, weird customs, and some minor problems in language communication?
There may be some who disagree, but for the majority of the ruled class, they can just vote with their feet. Isn't it good to follow the alien master?

This is also the current thinking of most people in Central Asia. Anyway, we are lower-middle class no matter who we are with, so why not choose a place where we can live an easy life?

Tavasdes would not blame the Central Asian people for their behavior and thoughts. After all, it was they who abandoned the Central Asian people back then. It was lucky for those people to find a suitable and comfortable home now. There was no need to point fingers from a moral high ground.

What's more, this kind of behavior may not necessarily be considered morally superior.

"I just feel it's too difficult. Sometimes I wonder what kind of belief General Ardashir has to maintain his current state and launch attacks again and again in the face of failure." Gondofa looked at the shadowy figures in the rain and said with some emotion. Even though he had already had defeatist thoughts, he still had to admit the charm of Ardashir.

Even though he was shrouded in this defeatism, Gondofa neither contacted the Han Dynasty privately nor thought about when to take advantage of the situation. He just asked questions with doubts and told Tawasdes things that he shouldn't have said. This was enough to illustrate the charm of Ardashir.

"So he is the lord and the general, and we are his subordinates." Tavasdes said with a smile, "What the leader needs most is this kind of belief. Failure is not terrible, but being shrouded by failure is terrible. In fact, to be honest, after the Caucasus jumped out, we have been getting stronger day by day, not weaker. It's just that we are still very weak compared to our opponents."

"Ah." Gondofa sighed. He also understood this, but because he was too clear-headed and knew too much, he felt somewhat desperate.

"In fact, the road is not over yet. There may be new developments in the future. You just wait and see." Tavasdes raised his hand, like catching the raindrops falling from the sky, or like fiddling with the web of fate, "Just wait and see."

Gondofa didn't ask any more questions after hearing that. The Weaver of Fate was always mysterious. After all, he was born into a noble family and was very familiar with the temperament of this group of people. He didn't think that this was a trick.

"Are there any new prospects for the future?" Gondofa asked with some doubt after Tavasdes walked forward, but in the end he did not ask any further questions.

Tavasdes, riding a horse, looked at everything in the world from a special perspective, trying to adjust the traces of people's hearts and destinies. This was the unique web of destiny of the wise men of the Parthian Empire, and now only Tavasdes was in control of it.

A wise man with this ability, as long as he does not despair of reality and still holds on to the idea of ​​getting rid of this damn future, can always create something different in the future. And Tavasdes is now relying on human hearts and destiny to guide the future as much as possible in the direction that he and Ardashir need. It is difficult, but there is no obstacle on this road.

The only pity is that there is only one weaver of destiny left. If there were more people and all parties worked together, the efficiency would not be as low as it is now. However, most of the wise men of Rest died from the backlash of fate, leaving only Tavasdes. To be honest, among all the wise men and military advisors under Ardashir, Tavasdes is the only one left.

On the other side, the main force of Cao's army, under the command of Cao Ren, headed straight for the ferry of the Helmand River. Just as Ardashir and Tawasdes had estimated, Cao Cao's main force did not appear at the bait Yan Xing, so it must have appeared at the ferry of the Helmand River.

After all, there are only so many places in the Kandahar region where so many main corps can be deployed.

"Quick, speed up the march, and make sure to block Ardashir at the Helmand River ferry." Cao Ren stood in the rain and gave loud orders to all the officers and soldiers.

In fact, Cao Ren is now somewhat anxious. It is not because of how dangerous it is to block Ardashir at the Helmand River, but because he is worried about Cao Zhang and Xiahou Ba who went to rescue Yan Xing, and Cao Ang who privately mobilized troops without Cao Cao's consent. These people are all in danger now.

Cao Ren and Cao Cao have known each other for so many years, and he knows Cao Cao's situation very well. Cao Ang's behavior is already on the verge of being unacceptable to Cao Cao.

Taking into account the main force of Ardashir that Yan Xing is facing, Cao Zhang and Xiahou Ba alone may not be able to withstand it, and it is not a good idea for them to block Ardashir on the other side of the Helmand River. Although the place where Ardashir must pass after defeating Yan Xing is the best position to block Ardashir, but it is precisely because it is the best position, Ardashir himself knows it!
In this situation, if Ardashir killed Yan Xing and the other two, and then gathered his troops for a great battle here and directly jumped out of the encirclement, the only legitimate successor to Cao Cao's forces would probably be buried in Kandahar, and the entire Cao Cao group would probably collapse.

No, if Ardashir jumped out, and after Cao Cao dealt with Cao Ang who had secretly mobilized the army and caused heavy losses to the army, and then launched another counterattack, Cao Cao's group would probably collapse on the spot!

I failed to get up. When I woke up, the temperature was close to zero degrees. The heating was not on yet, so I couldn't get up.