"Father, I want to go to military school." Wei Ze's eldest son, Wei Rui, said to Wei Ze seriously. He is in his third year of high school this year, and he is about to take the national examination, and after dinner, Wei Rui told his father Wei Ze about the school he hopes to apply for.

"Are you ready to join the army?" Weser didn't approve or object, he asked what his son thought.

"My mother wants me to go to military school." Wei Rui said with some hesitation.

Wei Ze shook his head and said in a helpless tone that only a father has: "Don't listen to some of your mother's words, she is your mother, and she thinks too well about some things, but the actual situation is not like that." After graduating from the military academy, you have to work at the grassroots level, and with the current situation, war is inevitable. If you go to the navy, you have to get on a warship, and if the warship is sunk by an enemy warship, everyone will be doomed together. When you go to the army, you have to drill trenches, anti-rifles. Enemy shells will rain down, and you'll be a platoon commander when you go. As soon as the company commander's trumpet blows, you have to rush forward with your gun in hand. If you don't rush, then you will immediately enforce battlefield discipline and shoot on the spot......"

Fifteen or sixteen-year-old children are not afraid of heaven and earth, listening to his father's description of such horror, Wei Rui is not afraid, he puffed up his chest and said loudly: "Father, I know all this. But aren't you and my brother Changrong safe and sound on the battlefield for so many years? ”

Wei Ze was amused by this, "Wei Rui, that's different. The war is completely different from ours back then, and you and I also crawled out of the pile of dead people. How many lives do we have on our hands at your age? That's really not the same thing. ”

Being so denied by his father, Wei Rui was obviously unhappy. He stiffened his neck and said with the puffing up attitude that is unique to young people: "Dad, I can't compare to you now, but I may not be able to compare with you in the future." You can't underestimate me. ”

Wei Ze didn't know how to explain a lot of things to his eldest son for a while, Wei Rui's wife Qi Hongyi hoped that Wei Rui could surpass Wei Ze, that was not to let Wei Rui and Wei Ze kill a way out of the sea of corpses and blood, but to let Wei Rui take the same path as Wei Ze, become a soldier, be promoted, enter politics, and finally become an emperor. This ultimate goal is precisely what Weeser opposes.

Of course, if Wei Rui really shows his ability to be different, he will eventually be recognized and get the highest position of power by his own ability. Weser didn't have to stop his son's thoughts. What Weeser disagrees with is the idea of a path to follow step by step to the highest position of power. History proves one thing, there is no such future path that humans can decide.

Wei Ze also thought about seizing the supreme power of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom back then, and now Wei Ze has achieved a far higher position of power than at that time, but Wei Ze could not predict the process in the middle. Wei Ze was determined to destroy the Manchus, and now the Manchus were destroyed in Wei Ze's hands, but the process in the middle was completely different from Wei Ze's original imagination. Weeser also thought about defeating or even defeating the British, and the process in the middle was completely different from the plans Weeser had thought of. Weeser originally thought that the decisive battle in the South China Sea would sink a large number of British capital warships, but in fact, he failed to sink British warships in the end. The strategy of dominating the Western Pacific has now been largely accomplished.

The facts of so many years have taught Wei Ze that there is nothing good about going down to the end according to the plan and going to the end step by step. Choose a major that you can adhere to and work in a down-to-earth manner, which can be done in China today. However, no one can completely decide what difficulties they encounter and whether they can be solved immediately. As for wanting the world to develop the way someone or someone arranged it, this is absolutely wishful thinking.

But these things must be experienced in person to understand, even if Wei Ze wears out the skin of his mouth now, Wei Rui has not experienced it, it is impossible for him to know the nature of the world, let alone feel the powerlessness and pain of the individual in the face of the world. Not to mention that Wei Rui's wife, Qi Hongyi, did everything possible to pursue a result and make Wei Rui the emperor.

So Wei Ze didn't say much nonsense, but said with a straight face: "Wei Rui, from childhood to adulthood, I have only one requirement for you, you have to start and finish." I must say that at your age, I was inferior to you. You've been playing the piano since elementary school, and you've persevered. You learned marksmanship from me since you were a child, and you have persevered. Of course, you learn to draw, and after a semester you say you don't want to continue studying, and I think that's good. That semester, you conscientiously completed all the tasks assigned by the teacher, and you also made a clear decision not to study painting anymore. What's more, the school should have a drawing class, and you have also passed the exam, and that's it. ”

Listening to his father's unfocused words, Wei Rui didn't know too much what his father wanted to say. But he could clearly feel that what Daddy was going to say was probably not the same thing as what Lady said.

"I have no objection to you becoming a soldier at all, but I know very well what the price of being a soldier is, that is, to defend the country with your life. When I was young, I didn't have time to be scared when I went to the battlefield, and I could die in a daze on the battlefield, and I didn't have time to think about anything other than fighting at that time. But when you're on the battlefield, I have a lot of time to think about it. Wei Rui, I'm going to be worried! Wei Ze really told his son what he thought of being a father.

Compared with his mother Qi Hongyi, Wei Rui may be closer to his father who rarely sees each other because he is busy. Wei Rui could clearly feel that his mother Qi Hongyi had planned a grand ideal, and the complexity of this ideal was so complex that Wei Rui couldn't understand it until now. And once Wei Rui did something that did not satisfy his mother, Qi Hongyi would reprimand Wei Rui very harshly. Wei Rui's father, Wei Ze, would never make a request that Wei Rui couldn't understand. Now listening to his father so clearly expressing his concern for Wei Rui, although Wei Rui is also very happy, he also has a kind of dissatisfaction with being despised.

At this moment, Wei Rui listened to his father Wei Ze continue: "Since you are going to choose a major in the future, do you have a job that you like?" ”

Wei Rui thought for a while before saying, "I'm still willing to go to the military academy, I want my mother to be happy." ”

Although Wei Ze was anti-Confucian, he had a high opinion of Confucius. One cannot expect Confucius to put forward a set of industrialized social ideas and theories more than 2,000 years ago, when the productive forces were very underdeveloped. Under the historical conditions at that time, Confucius had gone deep into the level of human nature and explained many problems. Ziyou asked filial piety. Zi said: "Today's filial piety is said to be able to raise." As for dogs and horses, they can all be raised; Disrespectful, why not? ”

It was clear that Wei Rui respected his mother and wanted to make her happy. The eldest sons are the ones whose parents have the greatest expectations, and they generally behave like this, hoping to keep their parents as safe as possible.

But Wei Ze is not very in favor of such an attitude, which is in line with the human nature of Wei Rui's age, but it is not scientific enough.

Wei Ze said to his son seriously: "Wei Rui, I have said many times that it is your own choice to do anything. If it's worse, you may encounter difficulties in the future and can't go on, and you will feel that your mother is responsible for these difficulties. Well, you don't think so, you admit it's your choice. Then it becomes that you draw a result first, and then you go down the path. But over the years, you have made a lot of choices, and you have worked hard, and you have completed quite a few of them. Take the incident of dancing guns as an example, do you think this is possible? ”

This example did silence Wei Rui. After learning spearmanship, he was very envious of his father Wei Ze's skill in dancing spears, so he imitated it. But no matter how you imitate it, you can't do it right, and you have experienced a lot of unhappiness in the middle, crying, being reprimanded, and your own blind practice that caused physical injuries. Finally, follow my dad to lay the foundation seriously, starting from the basic skills of standing, standing and walking, and exercise the core muscles of the waist and abdomen, large muscle groups, and small muscle groups.

The first time he was able to dance was after a severe muscle strain. During the recuperation stage, I felt the pain in the injured area, and I felt the pain that slowly emerged in the body during the rest stage. That was the first time Wei Rui really knew that he didn't know much about his body, and that was also the first time he realized that his body and muscles were much more complex and detailed than he had imagined.

After the cultivation, Wei Rui also learned to be obedient, and before every gun practice, he also honestly followed his father to do a complete warm-up, and then found that the things that originally made him feel very troublesome contained too much gunskill essence. When he stopped pursuing the Spear Dance, Wei Rui realized that he was able to Dance the Spear Flower with a lot of problems. Compared to the flowery shelves that he longed to envy when he was a child, the two are not the same thing at all. By the time this goal was achieved, it had been nearly eight years since Wei Rui first picked up the spear.

Now that his father Wei Ze said it, Wei Rui also remembered that when his cousin Wei Changrong saw Wei Rui dancing with guns, his cousin Wei Changrong was shocked, and couldn't help but whisper to Wei Ze: "Fourth uncle, when we met such a master when we were young, our lives were not guaranteed." ”

Wei Rui's ear power is very good, although Wei Changrong's voice is low, Wei Rui can still hear it clearly. I was really happy that time, and I felt as if I understood a lot of things, and I felt that I felt more things that I didn't understand. The real meaning of the spear flower is nothing more than the condensation of more than a dozen trajectories that can be controlled at this moment, and the only shot that bursts out of the afterimage of the spear flower is the only shot that is selected according to the situation at the time. If this assassination trajectory could have been determined a long time ago, wouldn't it be more in line with the principle of speed, accuracy, and ruthlessness to stab out according to this trajectory from the beginning.

Just like Wei Rui practiced with those low-handers, he didn't use advanced skills at all, he predicted the opponent's posture, put the gun at an angle and position, and the low-handed hands themselves would take the initiative to collide. What Wei Rui has to do is actually just see through the other party.

In this regard, Wei Rui is actually more inclined to his mother. His mother's demands were many, albeit high. But there is always a clear goal. Just like practicing guns, Wei Rui's wife Qi Hongyi's request is to "defeat the enemy". And Wei Rui's father Wei Ze is different, Wei Ze has all kinds of requirements for the implementation process, but he is very general about the goal. For gun practice, Wei Ze's evaluation is "to strengthen the body and protect oneself". Compared with the two, Wei Ze's requirements are undoubtedly completely beyond Wei Rui's current comprehension.

After thinking about it, Wei Rui still said: "I want to go to a military school." ”

Hearing his son say this, Wei Ze could only sigh, "The purpose of going to military school is to become a soldier, and now there are still many months before applying for the exam, I hope that in these months, you can seriously consider it." ”