Gai Nie is different from Wei Zhuang.

After Wei Zhuang joined Guigu in Gai Nie, because of his talent and intelligence, and his decisive heart, he learned the vertical and horizontal methods of Guigu very quickly, and was praised by the previous Guiguzi for having "the wind of Su Qin".

The core meaning of the Guigu School lies in the word "choice".

The world is like a chessboard.

If you encounter a problem, you should make a decisive choice, either horizontally or vertically, and when you break it, you should break it.

This kind of decisiveness is also a lesson that the disciples of Guigu must learn.

Once in a certain assessment of the Guigu faction, the previous Guiguzi tied the two of them to two ends of a passage, and two Xuanhu attacked the two at the same time.

With the strength of Wei Zhuang and Gai Nie at that time, the two could only choose to save one person at most.

In this assessment, it seems to be assessing which one of the two people chooses to rescue, but in fact, it is the decisive heart of the two when they make decisions.

And in that assessment.

Wei Zhuang did not hesitate to choose to save one of them, and killed Xuanhu who attacked the other person together, which can be regarded as helping the other person to avenge it.

On the other hand, because of his hesitation, Gai Nie did not save the last person.

Judging from the results of this assessment alone, the junior brother of Wei Zhuang has obviously surpassed the senior brother Gai Nie in the way of the Ghost Valley.

But is that really the case?

The answer is yes.

It can also be said that it is not.

Because just talking about the study of the Ghost Valley, Wei Zhuang has indeed surpassed Gai Nie.

But this does not mean that Gai Nie lost, to be precise, as early as when Wei Zhuang joined the Guigu faction, Gai Nie's learned ideas had faintly jumped out of Guigu and began to go to another path.

The vertical and horizontal learning of Guigu is two paths destined to be opposites.

Other words.

Going down this road, there will only be two endings.

Succeed.

Or failure.

And if the study of vertical and horizontal is expanded to the whole world, once the disciples of Guigu enter the WTO, it means that in the troubled times at that time, there will inevitably be a country to win, and there will inevitably be a country to lose.

Wins and losses.

This is one of the simplest truths that Gai Nie learned when he first joined the Ghost Valley.

But later, as Gai Nie learned more and thought more deeply, he suddenly discovered that in this world, another Guiguzi had never taught him.

That is:

[Xing, the people are bitter; Death, the people suffer. 】

In fact, when he was very young, Gai Nie had already understood it, but he has never been able to form a system.

It wasn't until he studied in the Ghost Valley that he finally discovered another important disease in this world.

That is the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period for hundreds of years.

The vassal states fought each other, and each had its own victory and defeat, and although each had its own losses, it also had its own gains.

But only the people of the world have never won, they are always losing, and they are always suffering.

Since realizing this.

Gai Nie was confused, and at the same time he talked less.

He couldn't figure out why we couldn't help each other when we were all human beings, but instead fought and oppressed each other, even for hundreds of years without stopping.

That was the first time.

Gai Nie questioned the "vertical and horizontal way" he had learned.

However, in the eyes of Wei Zhuang at that time, all this was just Gai Nie's weakness and evasion.

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Soon after.

Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang successively learned to become teachers.

At that time, Wei Zhuang was still full of fighting spirit, and did not hesitate to choose to join South Korea, the weakest of the seven countries.

The purpose is simple.

Just want to attack the strong with the weak, and prove in this way that he has comprehensively surpassed the senior brother Gai Nie.

Gai Nie, on the other hand, joined the Qin State, the strongest of the Seven Kingdoms.

But his purpose was not to defeat Wei Zhuang, the junior brother, at this time he had jumped out of the concept of "victory or defeat".

At that time, he was just doing an "experiment".

[If the world is unified, does it mean that there will be no more wars in this world? 】

So Gai Nie at that time did his best to help Yingzheng defeat the other six countries and successfully complete the unification.

But ······ The end result was not what Gai Nie had imagined.

After the unification of the world.

The war has not gone away.

Or rather.

It is true that the war on the surface has disappeared, but the struggle and oppression have not.

Even if the world is unified, the harmonious world of "people helping each other" that Gai Nie is looking forward to has still not come.

It's just a slight change of the main body of the ruler and the oppressed.

It was once the magnates, landlords, and clans of various countries who oppressed ordinary people.

Now it has become the reign of Qin Shi Huang.

The dragon slayer eventually becomes an evil dragon.

This truth is so vividly reflected in front of Gai Nie.

Over the years.

Except for the territory of the Qin State, the rest of the Li people of the Six Kingdoms who were attacked by the Qin State have not improved much in their quality of life compared to the past.

Although with the help of Mojun, Ying Zheng has been busy building various similar to the Great Wall, Lingqu, and Qin Zhidao over the years... and other infrastructure facilities, and a large number of Lebanese people from various countries and former prisoners of the Six Nations were conscripted for conscription.

Although with the national strength of the Qin State today, it is natural that these conscripts will not be the same as in the original history, and some of them can't even afford to eat, and finally starve to death in the conscription.

It is impossible for Mo Jun to agree to this kind of thing.

Even among those who built the Great Wall today, except for those captives of the Six Kingdoms, the remaining recruited people not only had enough food to work every day, but also had wages to pay.

Although the money is not much, it is much better than the situation in the original history.

But that's all.

Clearly not what Gayne wanted to see.

According to the language of later generations, that is: whether it is slavery or feudal monarchy, it is essentially the oppression of the lower class from the top, but one is heavier and the other is lighter.

But whether it is light or heavy, such a world is far from the world in Gai Nie's heart.

So in the end, Gai Nie chose to leave Yingzheng and also left the Qin State.

If you look at it from Mo Jun's point of view, Gai Nie's behavior is actually not a defection, if it is placed in the future generations, he can be regarded as "resignation" at most.

But under today's system, his resignation without the permission of his "boss" is tantamount to betrayal.

Especially later, he got together with Jing Ke's son.

Naturally.

Even if it was just for the majesty of the king, Yingzheng had to send someone to hunt him down.

From Mo Jun's point of view, Gai Nie's behavior is difficult to judge by "right or wrong", because he is like a pure idealist, trying to find an idealist's answer in this bullshit world.

His ideals are obviously not wrong, because such an era of "great harmony society" and "win-win for all" will still be pursued by many people even if we look at it 2,000 years later.

But his mistake was also because he was too idealistic, because such a society, even after 2,000 years, was still not created.

Not to mention the current era of slavery and feudal society.

At this point.

In fact, he is not as good as Gai Nie.

Mo Jun has been very clear about this from beginning to end, and he clearly knows that if it weren't for the hanging, then with his original ability, in this era, he would only become a member of the struggle in the troubled times.

Even now, what Mo Jun wants is just to make people in this era live a better life.

That's all.

So Mo Jun sometimes wants to take a look to see if Gai Nie can find that "answer" in the end.

Although he felt that his hope was slim, it didn't hurt to try, and it didn't cost him anything anyway.

This is also one of the reasons why Mo Jun has not paid much attention to this matter since he knew that Gai Nie had defected to the Qin State.

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But then again, apart from Mo Jun, in fact, not many people paid attention to Gai Nie's defection in the Qin State, otherwise if Ying Zheng really intended to hunt him down, he would directly mobilize a large army to cooperate with the intelligence agencies of the Qin State and the assassination organizations of the [Net].

in the world today.

I don't dare to say much, but at least in the territory of the Qin State, no one can escape at all.

But in fact, whether it is chasing and killing Gai Nie, or dealing with the so-called rebels of the Hundred Schools of Thought, it can only be regarded as a petty fight in the Qin State.

For now.

The great calamity of the foreign Qin State was the Xiongnu in the north and the land of Baiyue in the south.

The main internal targets are still some remnants of the Six Kingdoms, as well as some hidden dangers that began to erupt from within the Qin State.

For example: the military merit system.

This system was the core of the former Shang Emperor's reform, and it was also the "great hero" that made the Qin State become the strongest combat power of the Seven Kingdoms.

It is precisely by virtue of this system that the current Qin State dominates the world.

But although this system is good, it is only suitable for troubled times.

The essence of this system is to use the enemy's territory and money to reward soldiers who have made meritorious contributions after the war. As long as the enemy's territory can be conquered, then the resources and land of these territories will be rewarded to those who have made meritorious contributions.

But if it can't be defeated, then there will be no merit, and naturally there will be no reward.

What to do is to buy and sell without capital.

In a sense, this is a kind of alternative "painting pie".

Here's the difference, though.

This kind of pie can be cashed in.

But it used to work, but not anymore.

Nowadays, there are two main external battlefields of the Qin State, namely the Xiongnu on the grasslands in the north and the people of Baiyue between the mountains and mountains in the south.

With the strength of the current Qin State, fighting the enemy in these two places is similar to a father beating his son, and he can press it on the ground and rub it with his hand.

But the question is, what happens after the war is won?

These two places are currently in danger of "not growing an inch of grass", even if this kind of place is defeated, the Qin State will not be able to govern it!

In other words.

It's also in vain.

However, the military merit system also stipulates that there will be rewards for winning battles.

And so it goes.

The current Baiyue and Xiongnu are like a fixed monster farming location in the game, where you can get unlimited credit, but you can't get any gains.

If this continues, just a military merit system can bring down the entire Qin State alive.

Therefore, it can be said that the reform of the military system is imperative.

It's just that a country has practiced a military system for many years, and it is not something that can be changed if you want to······

(End of chapter)