Qi Xuansu quickly completed a new draft, as long as he decided what to write, nothing else was a problem, the key was what to write.

Then Qi Xuansu asked Chen Jianqiu to send this manuscript and went to see Cihang Zhenren himself - not in a hurry to see Donghua Zhenren first, it was not that Qi Xuansu forgot Donghua Zhenren, but it was of great significance to see Donghua Zhenren, which meant that he wanted to give Donghua Zhenren a clear answer, so Qi Xuansu planned to put it at the end.

Nominally, Qi Xuansu came to visit his future mother-in-law, and no one can say that it is wrong. According to common sense, it is before you get married that you should be more attentive to your mother-in-law, and after you get married, it is another way.

After the greetings, Cihang Zhenren did not look at the gift sent by Qi Xuansu, but went straight to the point, "Did you touch the nail at Li Qingwei?"

Qi Xuansu sighed, did not hide it, and recounted the process of his interview with Qingwei Zhenren.

After listening to it, Cihang Zhenren commented, "Li Qingwei is pretending to be confused."

Qi Xuansu asked, "What do you mean by this by a real person?"

Cihang Zhenren said, "You are a person who has been to Fenglinzhou, Li Qingwei has single-handedly led the war in Fenglinzhou, not to mention that Taiping Dao has been running Fenglinzhou for many years, and the whole Taoist government is their people, have you thought about it, why does Taiping Dao want to use Japanese people to govern the Japanese?"

Qi Xuansu thought for a moment and replied, "The first is naturally to save trouble, and the second is to establish an isolation mechanism, just like the firebreak dug up to deal with mountain fires and grassland fires. The Japanese people are unsatisfactory and unsatisfactory, and there are public grievances, and the first target is also the Toyotomi Prime Minister's Mansion, not our Daomen, and the Toyotomi Prime Minister's Mansion is our firebreak. To put it mildly, the relationship between the Daomen and the Daxuan Imperial Court is not like this, we don't directly touch the issue of people's livelihood, although we have a lot less power, but we also have a lot less responsibility."

Cihang Zhenren said, "This is not the crux of the problem, in fact, it has been the case since the establishment of the Daomen, except for several special Daofu such as Kunlun Daofu and Luosuozhou Daofu, most of the Daofu we have retained the original imperial court and implemented a dualistic structure, the Central Plains Daxuan Imperial Court, Nanyang has Dayu Kingdom, Java Kingdom, Funan Kingdom, etc., Fenglinzhou has the Reed Yuan Kingdom, and there are many small countries in the Western Regions, why do you want to do this?"

Qi Xuansu thought for a longer time this time and replied, "Because the cost is too high?"

Cihang Zhenren said, "Yes, there is a cost problem, there is a cost to the military, and there is a cost to the administration. If you really let the Taoist government take care of it yourself, how many Taoist priests will you need? Can there be so many Taoist priests in the Daomen? If not, then it is necessary to recruit wild Taoist priests and Taoist priests who have returned to seclusion on a large scale, extend the age of Taoist priests to retreat, expand the recruitment of Taoist palaces such as Vientiane Taoist Palace, and relax the threshold conditions for becoming Taoist priests

Can you afford it? Just the amount of money spent by the Taoist priests will make the financial problems of the Daomen even worse."

"And even if you start to manage it, you may not be able to manage it well. For some reason, our Taoist priests are mainly from the Central Plains, and even more so at the top. Taoist priests are outsiders who are not familiar with the local situation, so I think there will be big problems if they are parachuted in to deal with local problems, folk customs and customs, beliefs, and livelihoods. If you are in the Central Plains, maybe you will be a little more restrained, and when you go outside, the mentality of the Heavenly Empire, the contempt for barbarians, you can imagine what you can do. Isn't the loss of Nanyang during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Great Wei Dynasty a concentrated outbreak of this kind of problem?"

"So from the very beginning, we were in charge of the officials by Taoist priests, and then by professional officials to manage the people's livelihood. In this way, it can not only establish a separation zone as you said, but also greatly reduce the cost problem. And in places like Kunlun Daofu and Luosuzhou Daofu, there are no people, and the Daomen are directly managed."

Qi Xuansu nodded slightly, "The cost problem is indeed a big problem, the Steam Gospel has repeatedly claimed that it does not consider the question of victory or defeat, only the cost issue, in fact, the Steam Gospel cannot capture the Southern Continent, and a large part of the reason is indeed the cost problem, for them, it is a loss-making business."

Cihang Zhenren said, "In the process of the battle in Fenglinzhou, Li Qingwei repeatedly emphasized that he wanted to keep a Fenglinzhou that won the hearts of the people, and at the same time increased his efforts to support the Toyotomi Prime Minister's Mansion, would he not understand this truth? It was just a Fenglin Continent, a palm-sized place, right under our noses. The southern continent is dozens of times the size of Fenglin Continent, the population is only a lot more, and it is still separated from us by the vast sea

。 Why doesn't he, Li Qingwei, talk about the people's hearts and opinions? Forgot all about the cost? What is crossing the river by touching the stones, and the stone of Fenglinzhou is touched in vain? That's why I said he was pretending to be confused."

Qi Xuansu complimented, "The real person whips in."

Cihang Zhenren continued, "Even if the Dao Sect enters the Southern Continent, we can't even directly govern Nanyang and Fenglin Continent, so how can we talk about directly governing the Southern Continent? What is the basis of Nanyang and Fenglinzhou? Half of the Central Plains immigrants in Nanyang have always been vassals of the Central Plains Dynasty, and for some time they have become the state capital of the Central Plains Dynasty. Fenglinzhou has also been influenced by the culture of the Central Plains for a long time, although the wolf is ambitious, but it is not difficult to educate. Such a foundation, just a stone's throw away, is still unstable, Fenglinzhou had a large-scale rebellion, Borneo appeared Chen Shuhua and Wang Jiaohe rebellion, now we say that we want to directly govern the south across the vast sea, with a larger area, more population, and a more complex situation

Mainland, isn't it a fool's dream?"

"Expanding horizons is certainly exciting, but we can't ignore the practical issues and the implications that follow. The Golden Horde was majestic, and at its peak it spanned the two worlds of the East and the West, and then what? The extensive management of the Golden Horde resulted in the rapid collapse of the empire, and there was no national fortune for a hundred years. Is it just that we want to be a hundred-year-old empire? Just for a flash in the pan, not for long-term peace and stability? As long as the flash burns brightly enough, nothing else matters, right?"

"These truths, Li Qingwei and the national teacher behind him don't understand? There's nothing they don't understand. And they did. It is conceivable what they can do next. Because I didn't want to govern, it naturally didn't cost anything. Don't mention any development and future, as long as you can make offerings to the Daomen with peace of mind. To put it mildly, it is exploitation and plunder. This is to use the sword of the Dao Gate to fight for more for the Dao Gate."

"As long as your own people are doing well, it doesn't matter if the foreigners live or die. Let's not talk about whether this sentence is right or not, so it is no different from the Western Holy Court. Morality and righteousness, do you still want it? What we have said in the past, what we have said in the past, what we have said against Westerners, what we have said about Westerners, all of which will turn into a slap in the face to ourselves, like a boomerang of the natives of Luosuzhou."

"Some people may say that it makes sense to get the land anyway. It's good to get land, but only if you can keep it. The Golden Horde once fought all the way to the Blue Danube, and now the Golden Horde is only a desolate steppe Gobi, what is the point of not being able to hold it? Plunder and exploitation cannot last, but rather accumulates hatred, and when enough hatred is accumulated, which side will the aborigines be on when the steam gospel strikes again? I'm afraid this is going to be a question mark. Without a foundation, without the will of the people, and without consensus, how long can we hold this land across thousands of miles of ocean? Fifty years? Or a hundred years?"

"Life can only be seen in 50 or 100 years, and one country and one religion cannot be so short. Is the land that has been gained and lost considered to be the expansion of territory?"

Qi Xuansu carefully savored Cihang Zhenren's words.

To sum up, there are two, if you want to make the Southern Continent a permanent land of Daomen, you need to invest a lot of money to refine the governance, and Daomen can't do it now. If you don't want to invest in in-depth governance, you just want to make up for the shortfall, and it will not last, and sooner or later it will be lost, or even forever.

What's more, there is no talk of the West Gate in this way, which is unpredictable. Xidaomen is not one person, but many people, everyone has their own ideas, and if it is not the upper echelons of Xidaomen who compromise, others will not rebel. Fenglinzhou can give birth to the Zun faction, and the West Daomen can give birth

Any radical faction would not be surprised. Don't say anything about the same ancestry, the Daomen is divided into five, that is, hundreds of years ago, and it is not that it has not been fought.

If the West Gate is reversed, then there will be fun to see, the Daomen can win the frontal battle, and then it will fall into endless skirmishes. The Holy See is not a fool either, if the Steam Gospel takes the opportunity to support Xidaomen behind his back and bleed the Daomen of the expedition, then the situation of the Daomen will be even more difficult.

This kind of continuous bloodletting is likely to cause turmoil within the Daomen, and all kinds of accumulated problems will erupt in a concentrated manner, and there is no moral righteousness, and it is impossible to unite people's hearts, even if the Daomen disintegrates.

Moral righteousness is a fuse, and when the country is in danger, there is also morality and righteousness

, you can unite people's hearts and get through the difficulties. If you lose this, then you can only wait for death in times of crisis.

It is precisely because of this that the proposition of Qi Xuansu's faction came into being.

Equality and mutual assistance, harmonious development.

Expanding the territory, of course, is hot-blooded.

The eldest husband lifted a three-foot sword and made immortal achievements.

The question is what about after the blood?

is like a couple who eloped despite the opposition of their families. Many of the stories come to an abrupt end here. And then what? Most likely not very good. The hardships of life will wear out all love.

In the same way, all kinds of complicated follow-up questions will wear out all the excitement.

Many people often fall into this kind of misunderstanding, being instigated, fanatical and radical, drowning out other voices, and finally because there are too many dead people, they can calm down, and they can't end up.

Cihang Zhenren finally said, "When the Golden Que is deliberating, I want to speak, and this kind of behavior is absolutely impossible. They want to say that I am this faction and that faction, weak or incompetent, and let them say that it is better to go. At that time, Xuan Sheng criticized this kind of behavior, which is an erroneous tendency to be too eager for quick success and radical."

"What would have taken hundreds of years of slow operation to come to fruition, we tried in vain to accomplish it through some extreme violent means in more than ten years, in an attempt to solve it quickly. The result is that it does not conform to reality, arouses public disgust, ignores the will of the people, and even if it succeeds, it is easy to rebound. The inability to properly deal with conflicts has led to internal and external turmoil

。 There is also the element of a personal hero, who bases everything on his personal will and does not analyze the objective situation, which ultimately leads to the damage of his own strength, or even a big failure."

"I'm saying that now, and I'm going to say it again when the time comes to the Golden Gate."

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