Chapter 4: I Can't Measure My Life (4)

Cixi is a smart person, just look at the group of Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong when she was alive. It is true that this is because Li Hongzhang and Yuan Shikai are also smart people and do not want to be the king's precursors, but it can also show that Cixi's attainments in power are not low.

If it weren't for the alien rulers, if it weren't for the great changes that had not been seen in three thousand years, Cixi might have been able to shed the same reputation as Lu Pheasant Wu Meiniang in history. But if it's just if, after her death, many people put some unwarranted things on her head, but completely ignore the big world environment at the end of the Qing Dynasty. With Cixi's position and knowledge, it would be beyond the average level to be able to barely maintain the Manchu regime from collapsing, and it is impossible to ask more of a chieftain of a colonial regime.

Although Chen Cheng had the intention of turning around and cooperating with Cixi if Zai Yi did not cooperate, there was no need to rush this matter for the time being. Smart people are easy to deal with, as long as they know the comparison of the strengths of the two sides. But it is not those smart people who keep the world moving forward and making the world better, but those who have a tendon in their brains, like to look up to the sky and roar and then die generously.

Whether it is Lin Mengchu or Chen Cheng, they are not smart people in nature, although they like to cooperate with smart people, but in terms of their hearts, they still prefer those who can adhere to their own ideas and never look back until they die.

"Oh, is that so?" Lin Mengchu said to the young man: "But, are you sure that I am really such a person?" She approached the boy and brought her nose in front of his, almost touching each other.

"Are you sure what you see, hear, and think is true? Maybe all of that stuff is just your own brain. ”

"Eh, do you mean the part of Zai Yi and Cixi, or the part of the two of us in the back?"

"Hmph, you just talk to yourself, you don't have to bring me in." The girl's nose twitched, then she quickly jumped away, covered her nose and said, "You stink, haven't you taken a bath for several days?" ”

Hmm, I haven't taken a shower for a few days, it's no problem, but Chen Cheng raised his arm and sniffed, it didn't stink at all, okay!

"Hmph, it's because you've been with these smells for a long time, so naturally you can't smell them!"

"Dissent!" Chen Cheng raised his hand high, "It's obvious that your own nose is too sharp, but you have to blame me for having a smell!" ”

"What's wrong with you?" Lin Mengchu rolled his eyes, "Don't you have anything to blame?" If nothing else, I don't know anything, and you're ready to abandon our allies and cooperate with others. Do you want to learn from the Showa warlords to go alone? ”

"Eh, Chu Chu, didn't you say that you are only in charge of the war, and I will take care of the rest?"

"Wordy," said the girl, jumping down from the table and puffing out her cheeks, "yet we have done so many outrageous things, and even if Cixi wanted to cooperate with us, she would have to make it difficult for us under the pressure of those Manchu nobles and Han warlords. ”

"So? Wait, Han Chinese warlords? Chen Cheng thought for a while, "Yuan Shikai, Zhang Zhidong and others can naturally be said to be warlords, but they may not work together to suppress us, right?" ”

"You're talking about the previous situation," the girl said calmly, "but now it's different." ”

"Huh?"

"In order to raise more materials, in order to obtain more manpower, I have asked Xu Yuanhua and Dong Fuxiang to negotiate."

"Dong Fuxiang? Hmm, you're talking about Plan D? ”

"It's that Plan D, now, those Manchurian nobles in the capital, as well as those bureaucrats, probably want to see us as Li Zicheng's kind of characters."

"Well, isn't Plan D just a house raid and a murderer? I think it's no different from Li Zicheng. Whoever sees it will feel that this is an act of political suicide. ”

"Of course it's different," the girl said confidently, "because we are stronger than Li Zicheng, and we also have advanced concepts and guiding ideologies that he doesn't have!" Therefore, we will definitely not be like Li Zicheng, who has destroyed the old order but is incapable of establishing a new order. ”

"Originally, I wanted to ask you why those people in the capital didn't resist, but I guess they were suppressed even if they resisted. However, that's not why I decided to skip this paragraph," Chen Cheng said solemnly: "The main reason is that Chu Chu's thoughts like this are very dangerous." ”

"Dangerous?" Lin Mengchu disagreed, "Is what I said wrong?" ”

"Uh," Chen Cheng pondered for a moment, and then said, "Of course, we can strategically despise all the forces in this world, but in every specific process, we still have to pay attention to the enemy before we can act. Don't laugh to know that me, our enemies, and potential enemies, didn't you say you were going to conquer the world? Then all the forces are either enemies or potential enemies. They are all humans who learn from failures and blood, not machines that don't know how to work. It's like more than 10,000 people died in Langfang, and the Eight-Nation Coalition will no longer be willing to send a large-scale infantry group to attack our preset position. These people will learn from our various advantages, and many of our things will lose their original effect after using them once. ”

"Ah Cheng, why do I think you seem to be going off topic again?" The girl stood at the gate and said with a smile: "Are you a habitual crooked building?" ”

"When you say that, I feel like I'm off topic. But no matter what, what I want to say is that the tactics are correct because they win, but the strategy is correct because they are victorious, and there seems to be something wrong with the strategy."

"I know," said the girl, "don't you just not be too proud?" You can also think of it as a burst of confidence. Anyway, even if the worst happens, we can go to Sichuan to start farming, and we still have a lot of time, so we don't need to be too timid. ”

Hmm, what Chu Chu said seems to make some sense, am I really too cautious? Or I shouldn't have been so conservative, bah, she took me into the ditch, and the point I said wasn't here at all.

Outside the gate, the girl suddenly stuck her head in again, and said, "Ah, I almost forgot to tell you, there is a very interesting news from the capital, Ah Cheng, you will be very happy to hear it!" ”

Interesting news? Isn't it just an internal purge in the capital now? What's so interesting about that?

However, since Chu Chu said so, probably something really interesting? But I'm so busy here that I don't have time to worry about anything else.