Chapter 6814: Probably Not Surviving

Chapter 6814: Probably Not Surviving
When Chen Xi heard Liu Bei's words, he couldn't help but cover his forehead. Chen Xi had already obtained the talent structure of the five lieutenants of the Southern Army from Huangfu Song's secret letter and Wu'an Jun and Huaiyin Hou, but he did not tell others out of caution. However, after Liu Bei said this, others would inevitably be curious.

"Perhaps it's because the core of talent stripping is actually to merge two veterans with the same talents and highly overlapping wills into one person." Guan Yu listened to Liu Bei's question and answered on behalf of Chen Xi before Chen Xi opened his mouth.

"The talents of the fifth lieutenant of the Southern Army are a set of talents. The first four should be in order of oath binding, defense accumulation, talent stripping, and demon disintegration. These four talents are actually built around the last talent. It's just that for some reasons, I can't tell you about the last talent." Guan Yu said slowly with a hint of complexity.

“This is a talent that should have been sealed, but like geese that pass by, they leave their voices behind; like people that pass by, they leave their traces behind. Even if some things are covered up by history, they will inevitably be discovered by later generations from the fragments of history.” Guan Yu said with a cold and arrogant look on his face.

Flipping through history books and reading the Spring and Autumn Annals at night, the more Guan Yu read, the more he understood. As he went further and further on the road of commanding large armies, one day he couldn't help but notice the stories hidden in history. Following the traces of this story, he began to pursue it. Even though there were layers of cover-ups, they could not block Guan Yu's discerning eyes in the end.

"Anyway, it's not a good thing. It's best not to understand it." Guan Yu said slowly, "Letting those things stay in the past is the best choice."

When Liu Bei heard Guan Yu's words, he did not ask any further questions. After all, Guan Yu's expression now was as complicated as the expression of the old soldier he had met before.

"General Guan, can you kill him?" Chen Xi suddenly asked.

"Yes, the swordsman's idealistic cutting can kill." Guan Yu glanced at Chen Xi, but he didn't think it was strange that Chen Xi knew this kind of thing. After all, Chen Xi's ancestors had a very deep relationship with the origin of this thing.

"That's good." Chen Xi nodded. "Xiaozhi, open the soundproof barrier. I will use the imperial will to block it and tell you what I know. Then everyone should destroy the memories that need to be destroyed, and seal up the memories that you want to keep. Sometimes, we really need to respect our ancestors."

Fa Zheng opened the soundproof barrier at Chen Xi's command, and then Chen Xi used the imperial will to seal off the hall. He recounted what he knew about the corpse feast ceremony, which shocked the entire audience. As soon as Chen Xi finished speaking, Jia Xu used a special secret technique to destroy this part of his memory. Who wants such troublesome knowledge!

Afterwards, most of the people present made the same choice as Jia Xu. After that, Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei also thought about it and destroyed this part of their memories, feeling that they should not know it.

"Zichuan, do you need me to seal it for you?" Guan Yu did not seal his own memory, because at his current level, it was meaningless to seal it or not. How could he not read the Spring and Autumn Annals?
"No need. I'll keep it. Anyway, there won't be much need for one more piece of forbidden knowledge. I already have a lot of strange things in my mind." Chen Xi shook his head and said.

"There's no need to seal it up here. I've actually learned a lot of strange things from the veterans. Having one more will allow me to be prepared. Speaking of which, the sharp warriors should be able to kill this kind of thing." Liu Bei looked at Chen Xi and asked.

"Wu'an Jun said there is no problem, and also said that General Duan is very imaginative. The sharp warrior path he created also existed after the Eighteen Slashes, but it was not obvious before." Chen Xi said after thinking for a while.

"Because no one has ever lived to be beheaded eighteen times." As a native of Liangzhou, Jia Xu also pretended to be Duan Jiong's grandson, so he had a fairly correct understanding of the local military force, Rui Shi.

"Forget about the Eighteen Beheadings. I haven't seen many surviving sharp soldiers anyway. Lord Duan's first generation of sharp soldiers were basically his personal guards. This is the most core headquarters of a general. How many are alive? Two or three?" Li You said with a sneer. The death rate of the sharp soldiers was so high that even Li You felt it was outrageous!
"Almost. When I was young, the elite soldiers basically didn't live to be 35 years old. To be honest, think about how large the army was when Duan Gong conquered the Eastern Qiang and Western Qiang. As a result, only the less than 200 elite soldiers of the older generation are left in the Weiyang Palace. Well, they were not the first generation of elite soldiers. They were comrades who followed the first generation of elite soldiers." Jia Xu curled his lips. What's wrong with having a way out and a future? What's the use!
There were such a large group of the earliest first-generation Sharp Warriors, thousands of them, but now only three are alive. From oldest to youngest, they are Guangyuan, Zhang Huang, and Wang Mao. Why do these three brothers know each other? Because there are only these three brothers left in the entire first-generation Sharp Warriors Corps, the others are all dead.

Of the quasi-first generation warriors who followed the first generation warriors, there are now less than two hundred left in Weiyang Palace.

What an incredible death rate. To put it bluntly, without Liu Bei and Chen Xi to support these old guys, this group of people would have no future to talk about. Bai Qi said that there is still a way out after the elite warriors reach the eighteenth beheading, but the use of having a way is useless. How many of them are still alive after reaching the eighteenth beheading?

There are only eight people who are still alive from the reign of Emperor Huan and who can perform the peak Eighteen Slashes, regardless of whether they are demons or monsters. This is a large group that has been passed down for decades and is still considered a classic elite legion. Only eight people have reached the level of being able to move forward.

It’s useless to have a fallback plan!

Jia Xu and Li You's singing of the same tune made Chen Xi feel a little choked. Thinking about it carefully, it seemed to be true. The reason why Rui Shi had no way out before was probably because no one could live to the upper limit.

"And you have a misunderstanding about the elite soldiers. The growth rate of the elite soldiers is actually very fast. The reason why they grow slowly is that the current elite soldiers are not normal elite soldiers." Jia Xu glanced at Chen Xi and said, "Take the more than 60 old elite soldiers in their s who are leading the Weiyang Palace as an example. When they were recruited, they were only or kills. Now they are still or kills."

"What's wrong?" Chen Xi glared back at Jia Xu. What's wrong, old warrior? Did he eat your rice? Fifteen or sixteen kills is pretty good. He's really strong in actual combat.

"In theory, it only takes three years for a sharp soldier to reach the level of 18 cuts." Li You answered on behalf of Jia Xu, "This type of soldier cannot grow in the rear. They can only go to the battlefield and start killing. Soon, the number of cuts will pile up, and their combat effectiveness will soar rapidly. In the rear, they cannot be trained."

"What's the meaning of 18 beheadings in three years? All the people died in three years." Chen Xi said unhappily, "That's how Lord Duan's personal guards fought. Do you think I don't know?"

"If you know, then it's easier to explain. Simply put, everyone is dead." Jia Xu sneered, "The sharp soldiers fully demonstrate Duan Gong's ability to train soldiers. They are fast to train, have strong combat effectiveness, have a very high upper limit, and require very little investment. Their rapid development is even shocking. In the early years, I heard from locals that some people even reached the level of 18 kills in one year."

"What happened next?" Chen Xi asked in surprise, but was curious about the story.

"He will die in the next battle, because the old soldier who has been killed eighteen times will have to take on heavier military tasks." Jia Xu said such cruel words as a matter of course.

"Okay, I totally understand." Chen Xi was helpless. The previous generation of officers' ideas on employing people were completely different from his generation. There was no people-oriented concept at all.

"So what you said about having a way out is just ridiculous for the Sharp Warriors. Let me put it this way, even if there is a way out, only this generation can do it. It is impossible for a new Sharp Warrior with Eighteen Cuts to be born in your era. In Lord Duan's era, the Sharp Warrior with Eighteen Cuts could not live to the extent of opening up new special effects." Jia Xu said with a sigh, "So it doesn't matter whether there is a way out or not."

Chen Xi was silent for a while after hearing this, and had to admit that Jia Xu was right. In Chen Xi's time, not to mention the Eighteen-Beheading Sharp Soldiers, the number of ordinary Sharp Soldiers had been greatly reduced. During the entire Yuanfeng Dynasty, apart from the Sharp Soldiers that remained from the past, no new Sharp Soldiers Corps was formed in the Han Dynasty.

In this case, it would be a miracle if there were any Rui Shi to inherit the throne. The bright future is only possible after eighteen slashes. Even if the prerequisite can be relaxed because of Chen Xi, at least fifteen slashes are required. The problem is that under Chen Xi's command, Rui Shi can hardly get over the hurdle of ten slashes.

"So don't study the elite soldiers." Jia Xu glanced at Chen Xi and said, "This type of soldier has no future in Lord Duan's hands, and it has no future in your hands either. It is only now that you two are taking over that it is particularly powerful."

Why are the Rui Shi so powerful now? To put it bluntly, it is because the Rui Shi now are the elite left over from the previous generation who have survived the brutal war, and Chen Xi has taken good care of their bodies.

In addition, the warriors are all explosive soldiers, and the highest-ranked ones rely on beheading gods for output. The longer they live, the more faith and will they accumulate. Even if their bodies are severely weakened with age, decades of accumulation can explode in one day, and that can be earth-shattering.

"Does it only take a sharp warrior about a year to reach the level of Eighteen Cuts?" Guan Yu asked Jia Xu with a puzzled look.

"I've only heard this from the locals in Liangzhou. I've never actually seen one, but the Rui Shi are indeed a quick-training type of soldier. To set up a corps of Rui Shi now, one needs to train them for two to three years until they are seven or eight cutters strong. This is actually Zichuan's problem, not the Rui Shi's problem." Jia Xu thought for a moment and explained.

"Yes, there really are sharp warriors who can reach the level of Eighteen Beheadings in just one year." Liu Bei recalled that when he was chatting with the old soldiers in Weiyang Palace, many old soldiers said that they had also seen amazing old men before, who had reached the level of Eighteen Beheadings in just one year. At that time, Liu Bei asked about those people's current situation, but when he asked, they were all dead. Liu Bei had to sigh at the cruelty of war.

Guan Yu's brows were furrowed. Others didn't understand what the Eighteen-Kill Warriors were, but Guan Yu really did understand. After all, he had soldiers of the same type under his command. When the three-talented school swordsman was at full strength and Guan Yu had pushed the talents of his legion to the limit, his normal level was only twelve or thirteen cuts. With the core talent of the colonel swordsman, the exclusive killing, his normal attack could just exceed fifteen cuts.

The sharp warriors who can perform fifteen cuts and the sharp warriors who can perform eighteen cuts are in two completely different realms.

Theoretically speaking, there shouldn't be such a miraculous situation that one can quickly become an 18-killer warrior in just one year. It's not rational!
"It sounds outrageous, but when I think about how Jiang Guang spent a year to refine his adaptability, I think it's completely normal for such a person to exist." Chen Xi looked at Fang Liang and said with some emotion about the diversity of human species.

Guan Yu's cold and proud face was a little stretched. The more he understood about talent smelting, the more ridiculous it seemed to him that it took only one year to smelt and adapt. The problem was that Jiang Guang really only spent one year.

"Yes, there may be only one such person, and everyone was shocked, so the story has been passed down. But unfortunately he died too early." Liu Bei said with some emotion. Guan Yu nodded when he heard it, and his original thoughts were naturally interrupted. There are just one or two weirdos among humans occasionally, nothing worth being shocked about.

"By the way, there is something I will discuss at the grand court meeting, but I have to inform you all in advance to avoid accidental injuries." Chen Xi was also very interested in the sharp warrior who could quickly master the Eighteen Cuts in one year, but the man had been dead for decades, and Chen Xi had no good solution, so he changed the subject.

"What's going on?" Liu Bei asked curiously, "Is it about the drill in the Northern Five Provinces?"

"No, we are preparing to expand animal husbandry. In other words, we are preparing to collect grain." Chen Xi said very seriously, "The local grain price has dropped to 42 wen per stone. Although the official grain price has been maintained at 150 wen, the actual grain price has collapsed."

"I have already confirmed this issue with the veterans in various places. The veterans do not think there is a problem and believe that the official grain price is a benevolent policy. As for the local grain price of 42 wen per dan, it has not caused any impact. I have had a detailed discussion on this issue with the veterans in each state and finally determined that there is no impact." Liu Bei directly interrupted Chen Xi's subsequent words, telling Chen Xi not to exaggerate, as everyone thinks the current grain price is very good.

Liu Bei had actually discussed this issue with veterans from all states and counties. Although the veterans living in the city had some complaints about the price of grain, these days the veterans all had their own land, and those who were willing to farm could eat their own grain, regardless of the price. Some veterans did not farm themselves, but rented their land to others to farm, and then bought their own grain.

The official shops always sold grain for 150 wen no matter what time it was, so the old soldiers in the city went to their buddies in the countryside to buy grain, where they could buy a whole stone at around 40 wen, which was much cheaper. However, this was a bit troublesome for the old soldiers in the city.

As for the problem of whether the price of grain at more than 40 coins per dan would cause low grain prices to hurt farmers, the price concept of the rural veterans that Liu Bei came into contact with was that I would exchange my wheat for your stuff, and it didn't matter whether you accepted it or not. As long as you could exchange it, I didn't care about the price of my grain.

When the market price was 100 wen per dan, I could exchange one jin of wheat for a pot of wine at the supply and marketing cooperative. When the market price was 70 wen per dan, I could still exchange one jin of wheat for a pot of wine. Now that the market price is 40 wen per dan, the owner of the supply and marketing cooperative still exchanges one jin of wheat for me.

Then let me ask you, whether the price of grain falls or not has anything to do with me!

Well, there are some things in the city that cannot be directly exchanged for grain and need to be bought with money, which involves another thing, that is, the official granary, which can accept half of the grain output at the price of 150 wen per stone every year. This half of the output is real money and is enough to spend.

Therefore, when Liu Bei mentioned the issue of grain prices, most veterans felt that the current life was good enough and that it was fine as it was and there was no need to change it.

After hearing so much, Liu Bei naturally continued with this line of thought. Therefore, when he heard Chen Xi say that grain prices had collapsed and wanted to raise grain prices, Liu Bei's first reaction was to refuse - if a system is running well, don't touch it, just let it continue to run.

"I roughly know how they will answer. After all, I asked them once when we went to the Ganges. The price of grain had already dropped to more than 70 wen at that time. Now it has further dropped to more than 40 wen. This is because of the climate problem caused by the Seraphic Ring. Otherwise, it might be even lower. Even if I hadn't collected half of the grain output, the price of grain should have dropped to the level of two to three wen per dou of rice at this time." Chen Xi said with a somewhat helpless tone.

At first, after the Zhenguan period, Emperor Taizong worked hard to manage the country. In the eighth and ninth years, there were frequent good harvests. A dou of rice cost four or five coins. Horses and cattle were everywhere in the fields. Houses outside the house were not closed for several months. In the fifteenth year, a dou of rice cost two coins.

This was the key to the Tang Dynasty's prosperity. The price of rice fell to the level of two coins per dou. Chen Xi estimated that if he did not collect grain, even if there was a disaster, a dou of rice would probably only be worth this much.

This price sounds good, but it is not all good for an agricultural society.

A dou of rice costs two coins, a shi of rice costs twenty coins, an acre of land costs four dou, which costs eighty coins. A family has fifty acres of land, which adds up to four thousand coins. It can be said that this is not enough to cover all expenses except for food. Moreover, as the price of grain has fallen to this level, in the absence of a mature large-scale animal husbandry and logistics industry, the price of meat will rise due to demand.

After all, food is a necessity, and the demand will not change greatly due to the price.

This would be very serious, so when food prices fall to this level, naturally some people will be forced to leave the land and enter other industries.

Although theoretically speaking, a gradual drop in grain prices would benefit the country and the government, allowing people to have enough to eat and leave the land where they were born and raised to work in factories and mines for a better life, Chen Xi decided to raise grain prices in the belief that social progress is meant to allow people to have an easier and better life, not to force them to leave their homes and live another heavy life.

"If grain prices continue to fall, ordinary people will have trouble affording cloth." Chen Xi directly pointed out the logic of mutual acquisition of essential goods, saying that everything else is useless and this is the hardware.

"Wait, why can't we afford it? Doesn't the money from collecting grain every year go into the hands of the people?" Liu Bei asked in some confusion.

"Because various industries are producing more and more materials, more and more things need to be purchased, and money is gradually becoming insufficient." Chen Xi said expressionlessly. This process is like the 1970s and 1980s, when everything was thriving and there was money, but with more and more goods on the market, it felt like money was becoming insufficient.

"Many things in the simplest house were not available in the past." Chen Xi said seriously, "Tables, chairs, desks, and other things were not available in ordinary people's homes in the past. There were no iron pots either. These things have gradually entered ordinary people's homes in the past few years. These are all expenses, and they are quite a large expense."

The prices of some things at the time were so high that future generations would think they were crazy, such as bicycles and televisions. In the 21s, bicycles were not only expensive, but also required tickets. In the s, when the average person was making only a few dozen yuan a month, a color TV cost three thousand yuan. To people in the st century, these things are simply too expensive, but at that price at the time, who would buy one?

"For veterans, this expense doesn't matter, but for ordinary families, it's not enough. The price of grain is less than 70 cents. For families with no other income and relying on small peasant economy such as men farming and women weaving, they can no longer continue to develop." Chen Xi said helplessly.

The money is limited to a part of the fixed expenses, and the remaining part has to be saved a little bit to guard against possible accidents. The remaining little is for self-consumption. Under such circumstances, how can such a family continue to develop?

This development does not refer to the development brought about by one's own progress, but the natural rise of social progress. The overall natural progress brought about by this social progress is the real meaning of government regulation. If this cannot be achieved, social progress cannot be reflected in individuals, and social progress that cannot be reflected in individuals is meaningless to individuals.

There are two options for embracing the new era. One is to kick out those who cannot keep up with the times and let them fend for themselves. Then when they die, only those who are bathed in the glory of the new era will be left. The other is to pass on the glory of the era to everyone under collective control.

Chen Xi chose the latter. After all, as a major country with a first-mover advantage, there was no need to be so urgent.

"When the grain price rises to 150 wen, the most ordinary families in the Han Dynasty can only eat more meat every year, buy some cakes and pastries, and buy some things that can improve the quality of life. This is progress." Chen Xi said very seriously. This was only in the Han Dynasty. It would definitely not be possible in later generations.

After all, 99% of the families in the Han Dynasty were farmers, and the remaining 1%, that is, the families that would suffer losses in this proposal, did not mind spending a few dozen more coins to buy food.

Of course, Chen Xi, who made this proposal, and the people around him will suffer losses because of this proposal, but this level of loss is not worth mentioning for this group of people.

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