Chapter 6945 Stuff

Chapter 6945 Stuff
"You guy, you really need a beating in reality!" Sima Yi said to Cyprian with a gloomy face. Seeing his past self in other people's faces was not a good thing for Sima Yi, before he met Zhuge Liang, before he met Chen Xi, and before he met Cyprian!

"What's wrong? You look like you saw your past self in me." Cyprian teased Sima Yi very sharply. Sima Yi was stunned when he heard it, then sneered twice, but did not refute.

"It seems that someone thinks he is the same as me." Cyprian said with a bit of sarcasm, then looked Sima Yi up and down and slowly shook his head.

At this moment, the blood vessels on Sima Yi's forehead involuntarily thickened, but then he couldn't help but sigh. Cyprian's confident and almost conceited look was indeed the same as he used to be, but with the passage of time, he became more mature.

"The reality will gradually make you realize that even if you can do something, you can't make the world revolve around you. Even my cousin is not as capable of conquering everything as you think." Sima Yi suppressed the embarrassment on his face and spoke to Cyprian as calmly as possible.

Cyprian couldn't help but pause when he heard this, then he looked at Sima Yi. There was no longer the mocking look on his face, but only a bit of scrutiny.

"Zhongda, do you really think that your cousin can't subdue those people?" Cyprian looked at Sima Yi very seriously and said, "Do you really think so?"

Sima Yi frowned and thought for a long time, then nodded slowly, "My cousin is indeed a worthy god, but it is not realistic to completely subdue those people."

"Zhongda..." Cyprian looked at Sima Yi quietly, and finally sighed, "Not only do you not know the true image of your cousin, you don't even know why your cousin compromised, and you even think that this compromise is the ability of those people."

Sima Yi looked at Cyprian with his eyes slightly raised and a bit of viciousness in them. He could accept criticism from others, but he could not accept others thinking that he was incompetent.

"No need to look like that. I'm just stating the facts. Your cousin didn't compromise because of your abilities, but because of his own ideals. The loss caused by destroying you will be greater than the loss caused by driving you to stabilize. Moreover, the latter can allow you to exert some of your strength, and the total upper limit is just slightly higher." Cyprian looked at Sima Yi calmly.

"He is not compromising with you, but with himself. In other words, it's not that he cannot kill you, but that he thinks you are still useful, that's all." Cyprian looked at Sima Yi calmly and told Sima Yi his judgment truthfully.

"You are too direct, my friend." Chen Xi's voice appeared in the voice transmission channel between Sima Yi and Cyprian. As I said before, if Cyprian did not transmit the message, Chen Xi would not pay attention to it, but it might be eavesdropped by others. But if Cyprian transmitted the message, Chen Xi might intervene at any time. After all, the small world was Chen Xi's territory.

"But, this is also true, right?" Cyprian was not surprised to hear this voice. He guessed from the beginning that Chen Xi might be able to hear it. After all, this small world did not look normal in any way, so it was natural for Chen Xi to do something in it.

"That's not the case." Chen Xi's chuckle came over, "The major families still have some value in existence. You must have seen a lot of them since you came here from the West. They have various problems, but after they established their own countries with the support of the Han Dynasty, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages for the Han Dynasty. With your vision, you should be able to see it clearly."

"Let's not talk about the huge single political entity. Under such a huge territory, the operational efficiency problem is just the problem of these guys who are too cunning and dragging their feet." Cyprian chuckled and replied, "Let's not talk about those Central Asian families. How many cunning people does the Yuan family have?"

"Do you care?" Chen Xi's voice came over with a hint of smile.

"I don't care." Cyprian answered calmly.

"Yes, we don't care. To the west, past the Ural Mountains, is the East European Plain. To the east, a little further is the nearly uninhabited West Siberian Plain. It's difficult for the Yuan family to make a choice!" Chen Xi said with a somewhat teasing tone, "People's hearts will succumb to orthodoxy and justice to a certain extent, but they will also succumb to geography."

Chen Xi simply left the Yuan family in Sizhao City and left them there without any care. A very important point was that once the Yuan family took root there, they would inevitably be affected by the geographical location.

Sizhao City is the location of Yekaterinburg in later generations. The large piece of land to the east is Western Siberia. How to describe this place? To put it nicely, it is rich in resources, but to put it bluntly, it is a life forbidden zone.

There is a saying that the coldest place in the Northern Hemisphere is not in the Arctic, but in Western Siberia. This is a real forbidden zone for life. Fifty degrees below zero? No, Western Siberia can reach minus sixty or even minus seventy degrees. It is one of the few places in the natural environment where solid carbon dioxide can be seen.

Even if the Yuan family wanted to fight back against the Han Dynasty, the permanent frozen ground and the life-threatening forbidden zone were enough to make the Yuan family give up all their thoughts.

Of course, if the Han Dynasty had become so weak that the Yuan family could take it down by sending a small army, then it deserved to be destroyed by the Yuan family. But honestly speaking, if the Han Dynasty had really fallen to that level, it would probably have been annihilated without even having to wait for the Yuan family.

From the perspective of geography, ethnic structure, and so-called social trends, it was inevitable for the Yuan family to move westward, because unless the Han Dynasty declined extremely to the point where a force of a few thousand people could take over Xinzhou, all plans to move eastward would be unable to avoid a fatal flaw: how to farm in Western Siberia?
On the contrary, going west, every step forward will bring you a new piece of fertile land.

Compared to the so-called hatred of the upper class, the people at the bottom will vote with their feet.

After all, there are very few people who choose to risk their lives for the love, hatred and vengeance of the upper class. Even if there are, after they all die, the only ones left will be the realists.

Therefore, Chen Xi would never consider the Yuan family moving eastward. Even if the Yuan family became stronger one day and chose to move eastward, it would only be one or two waves at most, and they would just kill all those people.

Chen Xi never considered that when the interests of the people were contrary to those of the ruling class, there could still be such a thing as unity. This was only possible when the interests of both sides were aligned. The biggest obstacle for the Yuan family to advance eastward was actually the people who took the initiative to advance westward. And without the support of the people, how can we say that the best result of defeating the Yuan family would be to turn them into puppets. They were almost killed by the people and the Deng family was supported as the legitimate dynasty.

There is no need to explain the reason. It is more like the will of the Han people who followed the Yuan family there than the will of Yuan Tan and other senior members of the Yuan family to open up Eastern Europe.

From the perspective of the aristocratic families, everyone believed that it was the Yuan family represented by Yuan Tan that was developing Eastern Europe. In fact, from Chen Xi's perspective, or even from Cyprian's perspective, everyone knew that the reality was that it was the Han people who went there who were actively developing Eastern Europe!
Such good land, and there are strong Slavic laborers. All I need is a supply of wine and water. Why shouldn’t I cultivate it? All the land I reclaim will be mine!

So it is possible that the Yuan family would defect, but the defecting Yuan family can only represent themselves, not the people. They have to work ten or eight acres of fertile farmland a year, or become bandits and rush into a place that is 2000 kilometers long from north to south and 1500 kilometers wide from east to west, where even carbon dioxide can freeze into solid form in winter. Guess what the people will choose.

"You really have a far-sighted vision." Cyprian said with some admiration. He noticed this when he took over from Xun Chen and others to revise the Yuan family system and establish a westward expansion plan that might take two hundred years to complete. The current prosperity of the Yuan family is essentially based on the willingness of the people to follow it. The current prosperity is due to the unity of the people.

"It's not that unrealistic. It can only be said that the Yuan family is still down-to-earth. If Cao Mengde is assigned there, he will not care about all these and will just counterattack directly. Then no matter how many calculations there are, they are all empty talk." Chen Xi replied with a chuckle. This did not mean that he looked down on Cao Cao. On the contrary, he respected Cao Cao very much.

If the black soil of Eastern Europe was not cultivated as deeply as the Yuan family did, but just held its breath and risked the deaths of some people, and after recovering there, it would directly attack the Han Dynasty and could directly pull out a group of people to start a war. Even if the Han Dynasty could win, it would still be a disgusting thing.

But if you choose to dig deep and hold on to that piece of land, it will be impossible to turn around in the end, because choosing to turn around at that time is equivalent to losing your head.

The people tend to be stable, or to be more direct, the lower classes tend to be stable. In addition, the black soil in Eastern Europe is a fact. Once you have reclaimed the land and started cultivating it, you can basically forget about expecting the people to abandon it.

It is impossible for the people who have already gained this benefit to give it up. It is not a matter of the Yuan family reversing their policy at a single order, giving up the benefits they have gained, and turning around to charge back to Western Siberia. That would be a matter of forcing the subordinates to rebel and taking the Yuan family's head off.

The world belongs to all the people, not to one man. It’s that simple.

"The Slavs will be tamed by the Han people under the existing system, because the Han people need the Slavs to reclaim wasteland. This is a process of integration and absorption, as well as a process of westward expansion and tying down the Yuan family. But what I'm curious about is that without me, the policies previously implemented by the Yuan family would not be able to achieve this very well." Cyprian looked at Chen Xi's position not far away and transmitted the message.

"Because I'm still alive. As long as I'm still here and still in charge, and still in the Yuanfeng Dynasty, the Yuan family can't do anything too big, and time is on my side." Chen Xi replied with a smile, "In fact, there's no need to do anything. Fifteen years is enough time for the Han people under the Yuan family to reclaim a large piece of fertile land west of the Ural Mountains, and continue to move westward."

When there is enough benefit, if you don’t let the other party do it, it is already a crime!
"Relying on the evolution of time to make plans is indeed a good method." Cyprian thought about it and had to admit that Chen Xi's method was superb. As for matters related to Rome, Cyprian and Chen Xi did not talk about it, because they both knew that there would not be too much conflict between the Yuan family and Rome in a short period of time, but when the Yuan family had reclaimed the land to a certain extent, there would have to be a winner.

"But I still have to thank you for everything you did in Eastern Europe, which accelerated the process." Chen Xi nodded in the direction of Cyprian. Whether it was relying on changing the blood tax and using an alternative tax-farming system to divide the Slavs into knights and reclamation groups to combine them with the development and pioneering direction of the Han people, or helping the Yuan family and letting them walk on the right path, Chen Xi needed to thank Cyprian.

It's not that what the other party did helped the Yuan family a lot, but it greatly reduced future internal friction. Although Chen Xi took precautions when making the plan and obtained sufficient righteousness when advancing, there are still some uncertain accidents in the future. Cyprian's plan further reduced such accidents.

The Slavs, who are most likely to be mobilized by the Yuan family, have already begun to merge with the Han people. Just as Cyprian said, sufficient interests can form a lubricant that can naturally produce suitable middle-level managers to run this huge group.

Education? It is not necessary at all. It is best to have it. If not, there are smart people among the illiterate. Even monkeys can lead a successful organization. They either have ideals or interests. They just do whatever they want.

It is obvious that the Yuan family has no lofty ideals. On the contrary, Cyprian's westward expansion plan has sufficient benefits. In this case, it is self-evident which voice the Yuan family will listen to.

To put it bluntly, even if you executed Cyprian, people would still choose to move westward to open up new land, just like now, no matter what the government does or how it sets the threshold, people will still gather to where they can make money.

"You're welcome. I'm just verifying my knowledge." Cyprian said.

"That's fine. As long as you don't harm the people, you can do whatever you want with the Yuan family's territory." Chen Xi said calmly. To him, it was nothing to let Cyprian verify his own laws and rules in that place. Anyway, it might not be worse than the current ruling method of the Yuan family. In that case, it would be good to take a look at new possibilities.

"You are really generous." Cyprian didn't know whether to complain or admire.

"The major feudal states outside the Central Plains are my test fields for verifying knowledge, laws, and rules. It's not unusual for you to use them to verify your knowledge and laws." Chen Xi said calmly, "If I had to take on this responsibility, even if there was a problem of a single political core being slow to respond, I wouldn't have excluded so many places."

"Well, Sima Zhongda is still in this voice transmission channel. Is it really okay for him to understand all this?" Cyprian asked Chen Xi with a somewhat weird look.

"What's the harm if they know?" Chen Xi said calmly, "At the beginning of the Yuanfeng Dynasty, I might still worry about these things, but now, even if I say so, what can it do? Even if the major families know about it, what can they do? They are already ferocious beasts that grind their teeth and suck blood. It is impossible for them to shed their claws and fangs, tear off their wings and return to this seemingly civilized cage."

How could the Han family, who had enjoyed blood food and had completely become wild, give up everything they had just because of Chen Xi's words? If it were a few years ago, when they had just stepped out, they might have shirked their responsibilities because of this calculation, and then retreated back to the Central Plains and stopped cooperating with Chen Xi. But now, being able to serve as a test field for the Han Dynasty, does that mean that if we do well, we can become orthodox?
"Lord Chen." Sima Yi's gloomy voice appeared in Chen Xi's ears.

"Zhongda, you are so unfamiliar." Chen Xi said with a faint smile, "How about you come back and gain some experience? As Kong Ming's deputy, he really needs you."

"No, let me hone my skills here with the Yuan family first," Sima Yi refused.

"Look, you are still stubborn. Just admit your mistakes and it will be over. What's there to be ashamed of? Isn't he your cousin? Call him brother, and see if he will give you face." Cyprian said to Sima Yi with a mean laugh, "Why are you family members ashamed? No matter what he does, he can't cheat you. Even if we don't follow the rules, we should still respect each other."

Chen Xi glanced at Cyprian, but did not refute. If Sima Yi was willing to come back, he would make arrangements for Sima Yi. Although he was still Zhuge Liang's deputy, when Sima Yi came back, Chen Xi would take a gamble and give Sima Yi a chance to sit in the central government, let Zhuge Liang participate in the battle to pacify the Kushans, and give both of them an incredible qualification!
Sima Yi was speechless. Chen Xi sighed softly and then continued to transmit the message to Cyprian.

"Speaking of which, you have been in Chang'an for a while. If you find anything inappropriate, remember to tell me. Some things seem ordinary to me, but their existence is actually unreasonable. However, since I did it, I really can't find it." Chen Xi said to Cyprian with a somewhat tired tone, "You should know that when you are too strong, others will inherently think that what you do is correct, and then it will work like this, which will make it impossible for later generations to take over."

"Are you going to retreat so early?" Cyprian instantly understood Chen Xi's subtext, and asked in some surprise.

"We need to give newcomers time to adapt. You should understand that when something is too heavy, newcomers may not be able to take over." Chen Xi explained briefly, "I need a buffer of time, and then step back step by step to ensure overall stability."

"Institutional things shouldn't be so troublesome." Cyprian frowned. According to everything he saw, Chen Xi's structure was excellent and a complete whole. And from Cyprian's perspective, Zhuge Liang, the man chosen by Chen Xi, was also a true genius. In theory, if the system was complete, the situation Chen Xi described shouldn't have occurred.

"How should I put it? The existing system can run smoothly, partly because of me." Chen Xi said awkwardly, "In order to develop faster, I have kept some of the less suitable systems on myself. When these things are separated and transferred, I am worried about turbulence, so I have to make plans in advance."

"It's a system that transcends the current social level." Cyprian pursed his lips and roughly understood what Chen Xi had done. "It's definitely a matter of people making things happen. It really is..."

"I can't help it. The constraints of the times have caused me to only be able to exert a limited part of my strength. In order to exert more strength, I have to resort to tricks." Chen Xi was also helpless. "As a result, some of the current rules are actually reasonable only at my stage, but there are too many of them. I can't sort them out one by one. But if I withdraw later, these rules will definitely be impacted."

Sima Yi was quite uneasy in this voice transmission channel at this moment. In his opinion, the information he obtained was too much. In Sima Yi's opinion, he should have been kicked out by Chen Xi long ago, but until now Chen Xi still didn't kick him out. As for leaving on his own, he couldn't do it!
"Zhongda, come here and tell me what you think. Cyprian said that he would establish a new system in the Yuan family, gradually assimilate the existing system of the Yuan family, and then rely on the Yuan family to influence Rome." Chen Xi pulled Sima Yi out and asked.

"He has said it before. I think this is difficult. I believe it is possible to influence the Yuan family, but I think what he does will be absorbed by the Yuan family, rather than assimilated into the Yuan family's existing political system. As for Rome, I think the possibility is even smaller." After Sima Yi was pulled out of the corner by Chen Xi, he was like a student who pretended to be dead in class and had to answer the teacher's questions.

"Do you think so?" Chen Xi said cheerfully, without saying yes or no, and then continued to ask, "Zhongda, why do you think so?"

“Because there is a huge difference in the systems of the Central Plains and Rome, the so-called reform in the Central Plains is actually a forced change in the system. And when the time comes, 'ancestors are not worth following, and natural disasters are not worth fearing' will no longer be empty words.” Sima Yi was not just talking nonsense, but pointing to some very substantial things that happened in history.

"The system will be passed down, but the way changes with time. The opponent of Shang Yang's reform was not the royal family and nobles of Qin, but Baili Xi, the Minister of the Five Goats who made Qin strong in the Spring and Autumn Period. Cyprian can be said to be a man of heaven, but his future opponent may not be the same person as him." Sima Yi said very seriously. He acknowledged Cyprian's ability, but he did not think it would be so smooth.

In Sima Yi's opinion, Cyprian's system would affect the Yuan family, but it was unrealistic to completely replace it. Even if there was an opportunity, the subsequent uncertainties would be too great.

Why do some people think that the Yuan family can move eastward whenever they want? Do you think the Yuan family is a Zerg? With one order, everyone will ignore everything else and move eastward directly?
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