Chapter 6946 Distribution

Chapter 6946 Distribution
"What does Zhongda think? What do you think?" Chen Xi said to Cyprian in a teasing tone. There are not many elites who can be called the stars of mankind in this era, but the Cyprian in front of him is definitely a well-deserved elite.

"What he thinks of as an institution is just a manifestation of so-called rules and social operation modes, rather than the self-restraint that people give rise to for the sake of survival. Although both are institutions, the former changes with time, while the latter is difficult to change over generations." Cyprian said truthfully, "Zhongda has already made very profound explorations in the known areas, but he is also limited by past experience."

Upon hearing this, Chen Xi looked at Sima Yi, sighed lightly, and agreed with Cyprian's statement. Both the former and the latter were actually correct.

"Every civilization has its own background. This background is the spirit formed by the struggle against heaven and earth. This spirit combined with the people formed the original race." Cyprian explained calmly, "So when the Yuan family arrived there, they would inevitably change in order to survive better."

"Humans are lazy. In order to live a better and easier life, they will inevitably choose a direction that makes themselves relaxed." Chen Xi nodded, acknowledging what Cyprian said, "So after adapting to a new place, some of the original living habits will also change. After all, the most important thing for a family, a nation, and a country is always the next generation of young people."

"The biggest problem faced by the Slavs, Celts, and even all the foreign races attracted by the Yuan family is that the young people don't play with their own people of the previous generation. Instead, they choose to vote with their feet and follow the Han people's lifestyle because it is easier to live and they can gain more recognition." Cyprian said with some emotion. He does not have any nationalism, he is just purely deconstructing these cognitions.

"In other words, if there is a social structure that allows the next generation to live more easily, they will inevitably deviate from the previous system." Cyprian continued to explain, "Essentially, this is just a simple pursuit to live a better life."

"I have tried my best to make up for this part of the pursuit with social productivity, so it seems that everyone is of one mind." Chen Xi nodded, agreeing with the other party's statement.

"Actually, what I want to ask is, there is obviously..." Cyprian felt that the atmosphere was good, and he also felt that Chen Xi's personality was really kind, so he spoke with some tentativeness.

"No, this involves the difficulty of the EMI thing you mentioned." Chen Xi seemed to have guessed what Cyprian wanted to say, and immediately said with a hint of rejection.

"Is that so? I will come to you later when I have a deeper understanding." Cyprian did not have any doubts about what Chen Xi said. He just nodded to show that he understood, and did not ask any further questions. After all, some things about Baidai Yanyi could only be analyzed by looking at very ancient traces and reflecting them on the present. It was obvious that Cyprian did not know much about the past of the Han Dynasty.

"After all, the past determines the present, and the present determines the future. Some things seem to be happening now, but in fact they are destined from the root." Chen Xi said with some emotion.

The width of two horses' butts determined the width of the road, which in turn determined the width of the city gate, and later determined the width of the train tracks. Now it determines the size of rocket boosters. When you think back on many things, the root causes of the problems will be so far away that you will find them outrageous.

"That's right." Cyprian almost instantly realized that the tax-farming system and city-state system, which had a huge divide between the East and the West, might have their roots in what Chen Xi said: the past determines the present, and the present determines the future.

"Zhongda, you don't have much time left. In the 13th year of Yuanfeng, the Han Dynasty will implement a plan to destroy the country. Be prepared. If you miss this opportunity, it will be more or less impossible for your cousin to promote you." Before Chen Xi left, he sent a voice message to Sima Yi again, "So, when you answer, you'd better think more. You have missed a lot of opportunities."

Chen Xi made it clear to Sima Yi directly that with Sima Jun's death, Sima Fang being a hopeless case, and Sima Lang himself having certain hidden dangers, Sima Yi, Chen Xi's cousin who was originally the best person to help, was already somewhat the only one he could help, so Chen Xi still had to lend a hand if he could.

"Cousin, what do you think I want?" Sima Yi asked with a sigh.

"When you start to doubt yourself, your youth is over." Chen Xi said calmly, "In my impression, Hu Kongming should not have taught you this way."

Sima Yi was silent for a while. Unlike the official history, Sima Yi in the official history had never met a strong man who made him feel he was on a higher level than himself before he met Zhuge Liang. By the time Sima Yi really met Zhuge Liang, he was almost at the age of knowing the destiny.

At this time, Sima Yi had already been able to let go of many things, but in this life, Sima Yi met Zhuge Liang when he was thirteen or fourteen years old. At that time, they were evenly matched. Later, he met Chen Zichuan, his cousin who had not yet reached the heavens. Although he was strong, he was still a bit human.

But later, after Hu Zhao took Sima Yi on a journey of thousands of miles, Zhuge Liang was already superior to Sima Yi, and Chen Xi even directly embarked on the road to invincibility.

Looking back over the past thirty years, apart from a bit of frivolity in his youth, Sima Yi never made a rapid rise to fame afterwards. What a blow it was for a proud man who thought he was uniquely talented?
After all, every young person will have passionate and invincible years at that stage, and will have the confidence that the world revolves around him, but for most people, the final memory of that period is just the naivety of a middle school student.

Sima Yi met Zhuge Liang and Chen Xi too early. After rebuilding his confidence, he met the true stars of humanity of this era.

"Cousin, what am I to you?" Sima Yi finally asked this question that he shouldn't have asked.

"It's nothing." Chen Xi thought for a while, "It's not about me, but more realistically, what do you want to do? In an era, there are only a handful of people who can go from one success to another. Zhongda, people's requirements for themselves should be to surpass themselves."

"I can't see the end." Sima Yi said truthfully, "With me or without me, there is no difference. This era, even without Sima Yi, is still the same. I don't have that sense of honor, only a sense of mud and sand under the tide of the times."

"You feel so frustrated?" Chen Xi scratched his head. "It shouldn't be like this. Weren't you working hard to move forward before? Wasn't your performance in the Yuan family pretty good? How did you become like this in such a short time? Is it because of Cyprian?"

"No, Cyprian just made me understand the differences between people." Sima Yi was very calm. "I am still me, and I still have everything I once had, but the beliefs that made up Sima Yi as a person have collapsed from the foundation."

"Is it so exaggerated?" Chen Xi sighed.

"How many rows and columns can I have in the history?" Sima Yi said coldly.

"If you think like the common people who are unknown in history, the only option left is suicide." Chen Xi replied with a chuckle, even with a hint of sarcasm in his tone.

"I am not a commoner who lives for three meals a day and to marry and have children. What I, Sima Yi, pursue is to leave my name in history. I pursue that after thousands of years, there will still be people who remember me and let me live in the history books. But now!" Sima Yi looked at Chen Xi with some bitterness.

"So what?" Chen Xi asked calmly, "You can't leave your name in history, so you give up, right? It's just like that anyway, why bother working hard, right? You're really a genius."

"You said that people have the right to fall, as long as I don't harm others." Sima Yi replied calmly, "Anyway, the Sima family has support, so it doesn't really matter whether I'm there or not. Lord Chen, let me continue to stay with the Yuan family."

Chen Xi was silent for a while after hearing this and cut off the voice communication channel with Sima Yi. Anyway, there was still a backup option, and Sima Yi could only be said to be a better backup option.

"Hey, is it really okay for you to tell your cousin this?" Cyprian asked Sima Yi. He felt that Sima Yi was a little too much.

"Given the current situation, if I agree, my cousin will definitely arrange for me to go to Chang'an as Zhuge Kongming's deputy. Then, in the future decisive battle, Zhuge Kongming will be the commander-in-chief to participate in the war to annihilate the country, and I will replace Zhuge Kongming to stay in Chang'an, so that both of us will have enough qualifications." Sima Yi looked ahead with empty eyes, but he still explained to Cyprian.

"Isn't this a very good plan? It completely complies with the rules, and you are also suitable for it. It will not have any impact on the current policies and it will be very beneficial to you. Why do you refuse so firmly?" Cyprian asked with a somewhat strange look. Are you so ignorant of the current situation?

"My cousin's arrangement is actually very good, and it does satisfy my desire to leave a name in history, but this plan is not what I want. What I want is a great cause centered on me." Sima Yi said very seriously, "I have an idea, and it is still just an idea now, but if it succeeds, it will be passed down through the ages."

"You won't use me, will you?" Cyprian said with a complicated expression.

"Of course not." Sima Yi said calmly. He had noticed before that Cyprian was a very capable person, but he was really not good at plotting and scheming. This was a good knife. He could use it and maybe his plan could be carried out.

However, the most important thing at the moment is to exercise more and bide your time, so that you can wait for that opportunity.

"Why do you seem unhappy?" Liu Bei looked at Chen Xi, who looked a little lost after coming back to his senses, and asked with some surprise.

"Zhongda still rejected me and chose his own path." Chen Xi said with a sigh.

"Come to think of it, it seems like you've failed every time you've tried to persuade your cousin, right?" Liu Bei asked with some confusion. Chen Xi had a blank expression on his face. He felt that he might really have a different temperament from Sima Yi, and he had failed every time he tried to recruit him.

"Then who are you going to let take charge of the central government next?" Liu Bei asked with a smile when he saw Chen Xi's expression. He was really interested in this.

"Just transfer Xun Youruo, Xun Wenruo, and Zhou Gongjin." Chen Xi looked ahead and said calmly, "This backup plan has existed since the beginning, but I was considering the impact of doing so before. Later, I thought about it carefully and felt that it was time to destroy Kushan. Why should I care about letting them see my trump card?"

"How about transferring Cyprian, Chen Changwen and Zhang Zibu to Chang'an to take over temporarily?" The smile between Liu Bei's eyebrows was almost undisguised. What is the central government? This is the central government. You say you are an outsider, but if the emperor summons you, you have to come, otherwise how can you be called the emperor by the mandate of heaven!
Chen Xi was stunned for a moment and turned his head to look at Liu Bei. Replacing Xun Yu with Chen Qun and Zhou Yu with Zhang Zhao, there was actually no problem with these two in Chen Xi's opinion, but transferring Cyprian to Chang'an was somewhat strange to Chen Xi. In theory, Xun Chen was the most suitable one.

"After all, you have been chatting with him for so long, and your evaluation of him is no less than that of Kong Ming, so wouldn't it be just right to transfer him here? In fact, if you really want to show equal treatment, transferring Cyprian to the court should be enough." Liu Bei put his hands behind his back, stood straight, and turned his head slightly to look at Chen Xi.

"It's not wrong, I'm just a little surprised. To be honest, there is no problem in transferring Cyprian to Chang'an and letting him adapt to the situation. Then he can use existing resources to maintain stability. He may even do a surprisingly good job." Chen Xi nodded and agreed with Liu Bei's judgment. He was indeed optimistic about Cyprian.

"You think so highly of him. In that case, why not recruit him to Chang'an?" Liu Bei raised his eyebrows. This kind of talent is not a backbone following Yuan Shao, so he can just be recruited directly.

"He is very capable, even stronger than Kong Ming in some aspects, but the method he verified is not suitable for us." Chen Xi shook his head and said, "If he is used in the Yuan family, it may have a miraculous effect. On the contrary, if he is used in our side, it will cause great trouble."

For Chen Xi, Cyprian was not a question of theocracy at all. In all honesty, it was even a question whether Cyprian, who saved Christianity and restructured the church through his organization and operation and enabled it to be reborn from the ashes and was canonized as a saint, believed in the so-called Lord.

What's more, in this world, how could someone like Cyprian believe in the so-called Lord?

If we really strip away the so-called glory of the Lord and see Cyprian's system, the logic of the system is to reduce the exploitation of grassroots public power. This is also the key to the continued existence of this system until today - most human beings are willing to sacrifice part of their own power to protect their personal safety and solve public problems, but the vast majority of human beings do not want to hand over all their power to an organization that is nominally seeking benefits for themselves.

Even the state is only a part of the power that the people give up and grants to managers to maintain the welfare of all the people and social order. This is the so-called public power.

But the problem is that any organization, in the process of expansion, will constantly seize the power held by individuals within the organization, thereby restraining these individuals and strengthening the organization's control over individual members, causing ordinary people in the organization who contribute their power to become increasingly restricted, and invisible barriers appearing in all directions, ultimately forming the so-called invisible shackles.

In essence, this is the result of one's own power being deprived and handed over to managers, and the public power formed by combining the power of many people being abused.

Of course, this is a broad aspect, referring to a series of problems caused by the loss of control of public power at the level of dynasty change and the deprivation of individual personal rights. Excluding the ultimate outbreak of conflicts between giant organizations such as dynasty change, there are actually many small organizations that are attached to the grand organization.

The so-called small organizations here are just analogies to the national level. If we really look at the individual level, each one is a horrible thing that is capable of draining the marrow out of a person.

Take the clans that have existed in the Central Plains for thousands of years and are now revived as an example. In essence, this thing is an organization that can resist other external forces and is built up by people who are gathered together by blood and sacrifice part of their own power.

Because of the relationship between social groups, it is difficult for individuals to fight against systemic evil. To fight against this kind of thing, a new organization must be formed. The power demonstrated by any organization, in essence, is actually the part of the power contributed by individuals.

In other words, the stronger an organization is, the more it can oppress individuals, the more power it can draw from, and the stronger its management and restraint of individuals within the organization. This is also the key to how seemingly weak organizations can defeat seemingly strong organizations. The overall size is one aspect, and the output is another.

Not to mention things on the spiritual and will level, the most powerful organization is the one that, at a single order, completely ignores individual interests, can completely sacrifice all its own power, and has MAX internal control. To put it in an analogy, the Yang family can make the whole family eat grass at a single order, while the Cui family has to do everything they can to follow up on this incredible operation.

This is the internal management ability, and also the difference in the strength of the organization's constraints on individuals. Although it can be interpreted by faith, education, family tradition, and culture, after eliminating these things and only talking about the essence, it is actually the difference in the organization's ability to exploit the internal forces.

The reason why Cyprian's system has been passed down from 1,800 years ago to the present day and is still basically the same today is that after eliminating the interests and beliefs that all systems emphasize, as well as unity from top to bottom, Cyprian's system focuses more on reducing levels and reducing constraints on organizational members, allowing organizational members to have more freedom.

In other words, it means to reduce the exploitation of organization members as much as possible, lower the degree of personal constraints, and let organization members give up as little power as possible.

People's social attributes are important, but it is equally important for people to live for themselves. Cyprian's system strengthened the latter, restrained the former as much as possible, reduced the oppression of the latter, and prevented the public power represented by the church from becoming truly rampant at the grassroots level.

This is also the case with the church, which has passed over and over again. In the end, after the great waves, what remains is Cyprian's system, because while individuals need organizations, they do not want the organizations to continue to exploit them.

Chen Xi could understand Cyprian's thinking, and also recognized the correctness of the system he created. So when Cyprian wanted to use the Yuan family as a test field, Chen Xi simply gave up a piece of land and let the other party do whatever he wanted. Anyway, Chen Xi didn't lack such a test field.

But if Cyprian is allowed to take charge of Chang'an and run the central government, even if it's just for more than a year, Chen Xi will stop him.

Cyprian's approach is very good, but it is not suitable for the current Han Dynasty, and even less suitable for Chen Xi who now holds power. Many of Chen Xi's operations require this huge bureaucratic system that controls everything to be implemented. In the process of operation of this bureaucratic system, how much of the public power it seizes is within the appropriate range, and how much is outside the appropriate range? Doesn't Chen Xi have an idea?
When the central command is correct, the closer the organization's restraint ability is to the command tower, the stronger the effect will be. So with the above description, you should have a rough idea of ​​what is going on with the current rapid development of the Han Dynasty.

Chen Xi can say with a clear conscience that he is indeed impartial and is indeed doing the right thing, but with Cyprian taking over at this time, if we deconstruct the essence of the operation, it would be meaningless even if Chen Xi is impartial. Human beings have a tendency to be unconventional, especially when they realize that their cognition and behavior are just in some aspects, triggering the martyrdom thinking of the grassroots, and the subsequent thoughts will definitely be turbulent.

Therefore, Chen Xi was very optimistic about Cyprian and was willing to answer Cyprian's questions. He was also willing to give Cyprian a piece of his own experimental field so that he could verify his ideas. However, he decided not to let Cyprian take charge of Chang'an and run the central government affairs on his behalf, as that would cause a big mess.

Sometimes things in this world are not about right or wrong, but two kinds of justice. In particular, Chen Xi is very clear that what Cyprian holds is absolutely universal justice from the perspective of human nature. Even if it is placed in future generations or in China, it is a justice that is difficult to refute.

Similarly, Chen Xi's maintenance of overall social stability, ensuring that people live and work in peace and contentment and that society develops in a positive and progressive manner is also an undeniable kind of justice.

So it’s better not to seek excitement for no reason. Cyprian’s entry into Chang’an is still too exciting, so just stop here.

"Although I don't quite understand what you hear, there is a sense of dispute between the moral principles." Liu Bei said after thinking for a while.

I dare not speak silently, just watch it. The core of Cyprian’s system is not theocracy, but the supremacy of restraint, giving more space and freedom to the bottom. I don’t know what you think…

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