"I am also a person with ideals, and when I first entered politics, I was full of hope. Originally! I wanted to do something under Wei Jun. Even if it can't save the world, at least it can make the people of Wei live better. Outcome! I was wrong! Wei Jun is not the kind of king I imagined! He's an ambitious man, he's a man who wants to dominate the world......"

Speaking of the past, Bai Gui was full of emotion.

At the beginning, he was also ambitious and wanted to make a difference.

Originally, he was a businessman, a very accomplished businessman. Because of his talent and virtue, he was valued by King Wei Hui. He was summoned to the Wei Palace and held important positions.

Where to know? King Wei Hui is just a person who values meritocracy in vain. He summoned you and asked you to do what he wanted, instead of respecting talents and discussing things.

King Wei Hui summoned you to the Wei court to do things, just for a reputation that values talents, and he didn't intend to really reuse you.

Those who follow the other are rampant, and those who oppose the other die. If you listen to him, he will use you as a tool. If you don't listen to him, he'll find a reason to kill you.

Originally! Bai Gui wanted to change the lives of the people of Wei through politics. And then! Change the lives of the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Outcome! King Wei Hui only wanted to dominate, only wanted to use force to solve everything, and used force to plunder other people's property, not create.

The two disagree politically, so he naturally can't get along.

At last! King Wei Hui wanted to kill him. When he found out, he left the Wei Palace.

Originally! He wanted to go into politics and use the power of the state to change the world. Outcome! The plan fell through. After being frustrated, he picked up the business again.

OK! During his years in politics, he did not give up on business. His caravan is still doing business in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

The hope of saving the world from politics was shattered, and he pinned his hopes on business, hoping to save the world through business. Outcome! After so many years of hard work, although achievements have been made in business, but! The same cannot save the world.

He pinned his hopes on his eldest son-in-law Shang Ying, and the result! The way to discover Shang Yang is to change the fate of a country and make a country strong. But! There is a problem as well.

No matter how hard Shang Yan tried, he could not become a king.

According to the ancestral system of the Great Zhou, the throne can only be inherited by hereditary succession, and cannot and will not be passed on to outsiders.

So! Even if Shang Ying achieved certain results, it changed the fate of the Qin State. But! It won't last long. As soon as Shang Ying died, maybe the way of the world changed. As soon as Qin Xiaogong died, the next king did not necessarily govern the country according to Shang Ying's methods.

And if unfortunate enough? Shang Ying's efforts will be in vain.

So! Bai Gui also hopes for Yu's second son-in-law, Zhuangzi.

Zhuangzi is the inheritor of Taoism, which is one of the three major schools in the world, and has countless believers.

Taoism governs the heart, if Taoism unifies people's hearts, the world will be ruled greatly.

With this idea, Bai Guicai strongly supported Zhuangzi and established a base for Taoist doctrine with the lacquer garden as the center. And then! Then take the Song Kingdom as the center and radiate the surrounding areas.

With his financial resources, there is absolutely no problem in terms of funds.

With Zhuangzi's Taoism, it should not be difficult to operate at all.

Zhuangzi said: He wants to govern Qiyuan Town, as long as it takes about a month. If he governs the Song Kingdom, it will take about a year. If he governs the Great Zhou world, including the domination of the world, it will only take ten years.

But! There is a conditional basis for Zhuangzi to say this. If he wants to unify the world of the Great Zhou Dynasty and unify the princes, he needs troops at hand. Power comes out of the barrel of a gun, there is no force, it is impossible to dominate the world, everything is nonsense.

If he wants to spread Taoism quickly, if he wants to quickly end the annexation war between the princes, if he wants to make the world peaceful and the people out of the sea of suffering, he can only gamble again.

So! He chose Zhuangzi!

More importantly, the daughter Bai Gui fell in love with Zhuangzi, and Zhuangzi would become his son-in-law. My own family, who will I help if I don't help you?

Again! Even if Zhuangzi is not his son-in-law, he has to help him.

For the sake of the world, he must help Zhuangzi preach.

So! has his behind-the-scenes operation, let people connect behind the scenes, and let the people of Qiyuan jointly write a letter and invite Zhuangzi to come to Qiyuan to be a town official. And then! Everything was in his arrangement.

The final result is: as long as Zhuangzi agrees, maybe it will be done!

After listening to the old man's account of what happened, Zhuangzi was very moved.

He got up from his seat, came to the old man, and fell to the ground and kowtowed three times.

"Get up! Get up! ”

Seeing Zhuangzi kowtow to him, Bai Gui also hurriedly got up and helped Zhuangzi up.

"Master Yue! I'm going to have to think about it again! I wasn't mentally prepared for this! ”

"Good, good! Listen to you! Didn't I come up with this on the spot, how to do it, and then think about it! Am I not? I'm worried that you suspect me of what my intentions are? I'm telling you! Son-in-law! I have no other intentions! Everything I do, for the same purpose as you, is for the sake of the world! It's not about using you for your own ends. Our purpose is the same! It's all for the sake of the world! ”

Zhuangzi sat there and thought about it seriously.

In the face of temptation, how could Zhuangzi not be tempted?

What a good opportunity for the old man to be so good to himself and willing to devote his life's financial resources to help him!

First take care of the paint garden, and then! On the grounds of protecting the lacquer garden and protecting the homeland, an army was secretly cultivated here.

The team is pulled up, and once the Song State or the surrounding vassal states hear the rumors, they will inevitably take action. When the time comes, the people of Qiyuan, like this army, will be tied together.

Once the Song Kingdom encircled and suppressed the Qiyuan here, or! The surrounding vassal states used this as an excuse to wage war against the Song State, and this army could be brought out.

The key is that this team must not be exposed prematurely, but secretly and quietly.

Relying on the army of nearly 10,000 people here in Qiyuan alone will not work. Even if you have the entire Song army, you won't be able to deal with the allied armies of the surrounding vassal states. So! Military strength must not be exposed prematurely.

The army is to be trained in secret, by breaking up the whole into parts, unconsciously.

The combat effectiveness of an army depends not only on the physical fitness and skill of the soldiers, but also on the command level of the commander. And more importantly: the spirit of the army!

What do you use to stir up the morale of the army? Let your soldiers fight to kill the enemy and let them kill them at the risk of their own lives. In this way, the heart of the army and the army can be invincible.

What do you use to inspire people and military spirit?

From a personal point of view, first of all! Everyone thinks about themselves. Because! Human nature is selfishly. So! Tell them to learn martial arts and protect themselves. And then! Then tell them to protect their families and their homes.

In fact! Protecting yourself and protecting your family doesn't need you to teach, fools are afraid of death, and they will instinctively protect themselves. What about normal people? The same goes for protecting family members, no one can bear to see their parents, brothers, wives and children being killed by others. When their loved ones are hurt, they instinctively resist.

Next! It is to teach them to protect their interests and property.

Interests and property are divided into personal interests, private property and public interests, public property. Protecting private property is also an instinctive reaction of everyone and does not need to be taught by others. And to protect public property, you need to teach!

So! I want to tell everyone! Only when the people of Qiyuan have one heart, we people of Qiyuan are not afraid of what the Song Kingdom will do to us. We are the people of the Song State, and it is okay and necessary to pay taxes to the Song State. But if the Song State increases our taxes, we will unite against it.

Next, I will promote the national consciousness to everyone, so that the people of the Song Kingdom will unite together to fight against the surrounding vassal states that want to annex our Song Kingdom.

To tell the Song people that our enemies are not those who invaded us, but those who started this war behind the scenes. So! We must try to break down the enemy's morale as much as possible. We must tell the soldiers of the other side, preach to them the outlook on life and family, and persuade them to lay down their arms and go home to farm......

Our army is defending the country, so! Our army is the most united and the most brave to kill the enemy!

The enemy's army is an army that has been coerced into war. They were only driven to fight, to die, and it was not their intention to fight. So! It is very easy to discourage their military morale.

The soldiers in our army, they are not soldiers, they are all generals who charge into battle, they are all Taoist disciples, they are all Dharma protectors. They are willing to sacrifice their lives in order to protect their families, their home country, and the people in the world.

They did not give their lives for the sake of fame, they did not "sacrifice their lives for righteousness." They voluntarily sacrificed their lives to protect their families, their mother country, and the people of the world.

They are not "sacrificing their lives for righteousness", they are willing to sacrifice their lives for the sake of the happy life of future generations.

Name! Profit! Righteousness! Fuck me all off!

Zhuangzi was very confident in managing the army.

He believes that the combat effectiveness of the army lies in the spirit of the army, and the spirit of the army comes from who it is fighting for. When a soldier feels that he is fighting for himself, he will be brave! And the other party's army is just an ordinary group of people who have been driven away by the princes and kings. If the morale of the army is not aligned, it will naturally have no combat effectiveness.

He figured out the policy of treating prisoners.

Prisoners should not be killed easily.

For those who have ambitions, want to resist, and escape, once discovered, they are immediately killed, and all of them are killed as an example. For ordinary captives, keep them in a certain place, educate them, transmit to them the ideas of Taoist doctrine. Forcibly indoctrinate in them, and from among them, develop Taoist disciples. And then! Then let them go back to their home countries as a reserve force for Taoism......

Seeing that Zhuangzi was engrossed, Bai Gui sat opposite, looked at him quietly, and nodded with satisfaction in his heart.

"Hmmm! I'm not mistaken by Bai Gui! ”

(End of chapter)