He Bai's words made everyone feel overwhelmed after listening to them. If He Bai really does what Fang just said, then he is really a real selfless. If He Bai, the lord, can regard everything in the army as public property and not use it for personal gain, then there is no reason for the generals under his command to do so.

Because of the popular truth in this world, the lord of a force has absolute ownership of everything in his own force. The lord also has all the rights over his subordinates, such as rewarding and punishing, imprisoning, expelling, beheading, and so on. And the subordinates gave their loyalty, strength, blood, sweat and even their lives to the lord in exchange for the lord's reward.

Because the lord holds countless times more power, wealth, and status than his subordinates, and the purpose of his subordinates to take refuge in the lord is to help the lord develop and strengthen his power, so that he can get the reward, status, and power he wants in the lord's power. The lord also has the power to take away the rewards of his subordinates at any time, and the right to kill those who are too powerful.

I don't want to be here with He Bai, but I have a different way of dealing with it. It is everything under He Bai's name, not only belonging to He Bai alone, but also to everyone under this force. He Bai has no absolute power over everything, only relative power. Everyone also has their own power over their own forces, but the size of their positions and their rights and responsibilities are different, but they all have great responsibilities.

On the surface, He Bai's move is that he has given up his absolute power and wants to share all the rights of his own forces with his subordinates. To put it in layman's terms, He Bai and the generals are not only a master-slave relationship, but also a collaborator's relationship, or a relationship between major shareholders and minority shareholders.

Although this statement is fresh, He Bai's ambition is very good, if everyone in the world can be less selfish and more public, presumably the world will not be as full of smoke and chaos as it is now.

He Bai has not yet revealed his ambition to dominate the world, and the generals have no reason to oppose He Bai's public spirit. If He Bai can become one of the three princes of the court in the future, then the generals who follow He Bai will not only be He Bai's generals, but may even be the ministers of the Han court in the same hall with He Bai.

After the generals understood, they immediately bowed their heads again and shouted: "The lord is selfless, we admire, we are waiting to follow the lord's command to the death, and fight for the ambition of the lord for life, although I will not complain." There will be no more second thoughts, and they will be thought of by others. ”

He Bai happily lifted everyone barefoot, and put out his thoughts one by one, clarifying the distinction between public and private forces. Everyone in the armed forces has the right and responsibility. He Bai is no longer the only master, everyone in the whole army is the master. It's just that He Bai, as the head of an army, has relatively centralized jurisdiction. Like everyone else, you can enjoy everything that this power brings, but you can't arbitrarily assign it to your own personal use.

To put it bluntly, all this is just He Bai deceiving people. He Bai just secretly changed the concept, so that the generals mistakenly thought that he was also a small shareholder of his own force, and he was no longer just a wage earner. Which of the company bosses in later generations did not say so, the company belongs to everyone, not to him alone, but when did the company really become a wage earner?

Now He Bai also said the same, purely to deceive the ancients and not to know. In this way, the small selfish actions of the generals who dig up the foot of the wall of their own power behind He Bai's back can be avoided, and if anyone dares to disobey, then He Bai can use the righteous name of seeking to seize the public property against him. It's no longer a simple rebellion to generalize.

In the past, the rebellion was only related to the lord alone, and had nothing to do with everyone. If the betrayer still hooks up with everyone, the betrayal can be justified, but the lord may not be justified. The current rebellion is not only a betrayal of the lord alone, but a betrayal of everyone, and a betrayal of the entire group. This is a serious consequence, as a traitor, you have to think about it clearly, at least the reason needs to be very sufficient.

It's just that in this way, the generals have risen up to fight for their own forces, but their feelings for He Bai are no longer the righteousness of master and slave, but the collaborator relationship of master and slave. This is also a major disadvantage of He Bai's lack of noble family background as the background, especially the lack of successive generations of loyal retainers and clan soldiers.

Just like the Sun and Wu forces of the Three Kingdoms, soldiers are generals, and the Lord of Wu does not have much jurisdiction over the soldiers and horses under the command of the generals. If there is something to do, it can only be given to the generals, and it is not possible to overstep the ranks, let alone forcibly seize the generals' troops and horses.

This is a helpless move by an emperor from a civilian background, and without a noble family background, it is difficult for others to truly submit. Just like the later five surnames and seven families, even the royal princesses of the Tang Dynasty were not as noble as their daughters. He Bai can not pay attention to his family background, but the locals living in this world attach great importance to it, believing that people with noble family backgrounds are born to be the main candidates.

Just like Cao Pi in the Three Kingdoms, if he wanted to be the emperor, it was much more difficult than Liu Bei, who was also from the Han family, and secretly made a lot of concessions before the ministers agreed to this matter. And Liu Bei is much more of a matter of course, and the ministers have an eighty or ninety percent approval rate. As for Sun Quan, Jiangdong's strength is good, but does anyone take him seriously? Those who have the prestige and fame to unify the world also look at Shu Wei, and Sun Wu is just playing soy sauce. So He Bai had no choice but to follow the customs.

There are pros and cons to this, but in general, the pros outweigh the cons. In the future, when the world is decided, if the generals are still rebellious and do not know how to change, He Bai will inevitably follow Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang's actions. After all, all this is just for the stability of the country.

As for He Bai's background and family background, whether to find a noble person to be the ancestor, He Bai thought about it again and again, or not. First, he is not used to it and does not like it, and second, He Bai, who has the knowledge and experience of later generations, has the confidence to break the inconvenience caused by his family background. It is nothing more than a question of ideological transformation, which is not a big problem for He Bai.

Fu Xing arched his hand and said in a deep voice: "The public heart of the lord, we already know, but the wealth of the Yan family seized by Youbeiping County was a long time ago. The participants are basically the domestic slaves of the lord, so the more than 100 million yuan should be the private property of the lord, but it cannot be used for public purposes. ”

He Bai waved his hand and said: "My family only has a few wives and concubines, a few children, and how much money can I need for a dozen people." There is a fortune issued by the court, which is enough for my family. All the excess money is used for public use. ”

The generals bowed again and said, "The Lord is really selfless, and I admire it." ”

He Bai couldn't help but secretly rejoice in his heart, the more than 300 million yuan was just a small fortune, and he still had a huge fortune of 1.35 billion yuan obtained from the auction of 3,000 acres of land. It was the wealth obtained privately through the Taiyuan Taishou, not through the army, and it was all hidden in the governor's mansion, so the generals did not know. There are hundreds of boxes of that money, and that's my real private money.

In fact, the army is its own, and it will fight for itself in the future. This money may also be used in the future, but at that time, it will be necessary to make a selfless move to devote itself to the public and subsidize the public with private money.

After sitting down again, everyone's respect for He Bai was already from the bottom of their hearts, and their feelings for He Bai were extremely frank, their eyes were clear, and they were full of the prospect of the bright future of their own forces and the joy of participating in it. It seems that the slogan that everyone is the master is indeed very touching and motivating to work hard. This loyalty is at least over 100, and it is difficult to fall for life.

Early the next morning, the army was divided into three, and then they went their separate ways. More than 1,000 people under the command of He Bai, Li Ping, and Cheng Qi followed behind Hu Dacheng and another old soldier, and went north along the path in the mountains that was covered by heavy snow.

Along the way, the army was thirsty for ice and snow, hungry for fried noodles, and sleepy in the snow.

He Bai stood in the snow, holding the trunk of the tree, looking at the soldiers circling in the mountains, and felt a lot of emotion in his heart. At this time, the spirit of the soldiers was really tenacious, far stronger than his own soldiers in later generations. If it weren't for Brother Dian Wei's two-year hard training, maybe he wouldn't be able to compare to them.

Think about Cao Cao and Liu Bei in history, both of whom are known for their spiritual tenacity and perseverance. Although he was defeated repeatedly, he was able to stand up again in the end, and he admired it. I don't know how they grew up?

Cao Cao is a son of a nobleman, Liu Bei is also a rich prodigal son of a good dog and horse, they have not undergone special training, where does the tenacious spirit come from? He Baisi thought about it, and he could only say that they were talented.

They are all people with the talent and ambition to dominate the world, but unfortunately, they happen to be in the same time and space and in the same era. In the end, it can only be one of the three parts of the world, which has caused the confrontation between the north and the south of China for nearly a hundred years. lost precious time to recuperate, and after the Eight Kings Rebellion, it was taken advantage of by ethnic minorities.

In this life, there is their own coming, although they are not better than them in terms of ability and mind, but they are much stronger than them in vision and thought. As long as there is land for its own development, within ten years, most of the world can be fixed, and it will never be dragged to the point of the establishment of the Three Kingdoms.

He Bai and Hu Dacheng took the lead in climbing over a long frozen cliff, which was dozens of meters high, and the cliff under their feet was only one foot and a half wide on average.

Seeing that the soldiers behind them tied a hemp rope to protect each other, they were cautiously climbing one by one. He Bai wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and asked, "How far are you to reach the capital?" ”

Hu Dacheng wiped his old face, looked around again, pointed to a small mountain peak a few miles away, and said: "If you cross that peak, you can see the capital." If you go to the capital city, there are almost twenty miles of mountain roads and more than ten miles of flat roads. ”

"So it's less than forty miles away?" He Bai nodded, then turned around and shouted towards the cliff: "Brothers, hurry up, there are several miles of way up the mountain, and you can go down the mountain." I will be able to leave this ghost mountain and return to the flat land within today's day. ”

"Oh......" The soldiers who climbed the cliff did not dare to respond loudly, but only sighed. He Bai stood back in front of the cliff again, answering the soldiers one after another. Cheng Qi's department was in the first place, and when he arrived at Li Ping's department, more than an hour had passed.

This answering person is also a hard job, He Bai couldn't help wiping the beads of sweat, and was ready to call Cheng Qi to come and take over. Suddenly, a tall and thin soldier who was climbing suddenly fell in front of He Bai's eyes, and the two soldiers who were connected nearby were immediately taken down together.

Seeing this scene, He Bai's heart suddenly lifted, and he almost didn't jump out of his chest. Just when He Bai was stunned, Hou Cheng, who was in the middle section, squatted, grabbed the rope around his waist with his left hand, and grabbed a protruding mountain rock with his right hand. Together with the six soldiers behind him, he stopped the momentum of the fall.

He Bai looked at the three screaming soldiers who were hung by the ropes, and was embarrassed for a while, at this angle, it was very difficult to use his hands. If they were saved, maybe Hou Cheng and the other seven soldiers would also be taken down. If you save them...... He Bai glanced at Hou Cheng, then the Wang family's covenant has not been completed.

At this moment, Li Ping shouted loudly on the other side of the cliff: "Uncle, uncle, that's Miss, that's Miss." ”

He Bai was shocked, and looked fixedly, and sure enough, the thin and tall soldier at the bottom was Ma Xue'er's appearance. It's just that her voice is hoarse, and her screaming voice is not like a female voice, so He Bai didn't notice it for a while.

He Bai didn't have time to ask why Ma Xue'er was here at this time, and hurriedly shouted: "Hurry up, throw the rope, let the three people under the cliff catch it, and I'll pull them up here." ”

The soldiers who passed first immediately untied the ropes on their bodies and joined each other into a long one, which Cheng Qi carried back, fell it, and ordered the three of them to tie it firmly, and then put the long rope back to safety. Dozens of soldiers stood together and pulled hard, and finally pulled the three of them up successfully under the condition that Hou became convinced. After a period of scramble, the ten men managed to climb the cliff.

He Bai looked at Hou Cheng, who was pale and exhausted in front of him, and his heart was very complicated. He is a subordinate of his own real historical name, and his feelings for him are both love and resentment. Love is famous because of history, and resentment is to complain about his unruliness. It's just a second- or third-rate general, why don't you want to tame yourself.

Regarding the requirements of the Taiyuan Wang family, He Bai had the intention to abandon Hou Cheng after he got the little Diao Chan. A subordinate who refused to be tamed and was always thinking about Lishantou, He Bai didn't feel a pity. Anyway, he is not a first-class general, and between gains and losses, He Bai doesn't care anymore.

However, just when He Bai was about to use this battle to solve it, Hou Cheng helped himself save the life of his concubine Ma Xue'er. Although he was just saving himself at that time, He Bai, who was relatively emotional, still accepted his feelings, and it was inconvenient to deal with him for the sake of the Wang family.