Eighty-eighth Operational Meeting
Ning Yiwu's generals all know that their suzerain has some special ways of behaving, if he comforts you with a smile in front of everyone, it means that your career can basically be declared a death sentence, and if he criticizes you unceremoniously in front of everyone, it means that you will get a major appointment in a short time.
This is another way for Ning Yiwu to control people.
This world is not just about leading by example, if you want to select a capable leader from thousands of subordinates, you need some extraordinary means, and these methods are what he slowly learned in his career as a sect master.
Ning Yiwu will observe the words and expressions in the war conference room, if he finds those generals who are confused because of the meeting in the middle of the night, he will not entrust them with important tasks, and will smile and say, rest more, and those generals who always maintain a fresh mind, he will let them fight evil battles.
Since the Shadowless Old Man launched the second coup d'état, because he took in the white-eyed old man in advance, he naturally couldn't show favor to the Shadowless Old Man anymore, so for this "second coup" of the Shadowless Old Man, he wrote a letter to tell the Shadowless Old Man.
The letter said, "Now that the world is in turmoil, it is the time to win the hearts and minds of the people, how can they kill people indiscriminately like Brother Wuying! What's more, the few people killed by the brothers once had immortal merits to the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, even if they made mistakes, they could be slowly resolved, how could they force others to commit suicide!"
Whoever it is, after receiving such a letter, must have a bad feeling in his heart.
Ning Yiwu's purpose was to make the old man feel uncomfortable and even angry.
Even though this letter had long since sunk into the sea, Ning Yiwu's purpose was to hope that this letter could better arouse the anger of the Shadowless Old Man.
Through this method, Ning Yiwu expected this shadowless old man to launch a war against the Divine Sword Sect in advance.
Why would Ning Yiwu do this, because he expected the Shadowless Old Man to launch a war against the Divine Sword Sect "in advance", and the key to this was the word "advance".
Ning Yiwu knew very well that if the Shadowless Old Man waited for four or five years, stood firm, and relied on his means of grace and prestige and his former prestige, coupled with his special status as a famous general, after cleaning up the hearts of the internal military family and the pill family, and then waiting for the opportunity, then it would be difficult for the Divine Sword Sect to parry.
At that time, no matter how easy it was to defend and difficult to attack, the Divine Sword Sect was by no means the opponent of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, and the Ten Thousand Swords Sect did not have to worry about being attacked on both sides.
And now, this old guy has only eased the contradiction between the family and the military family, and he can't achieve unity at all, in such an era, if the military family and the alchemy family can't work together, it is impossible to win a war.
The reason why the old man with white eyebrows stepped down was also because this old guy was not born after a famous military family, he grew up in the bitter cold army, and was ousted by the shadowless old man after the famous military family, which is also a kind of victory of the "famous military family" for the "military family".
As in the case of a coup d'état, a person's failure does not represent only his own failure, but a new internal system, and one interest group replaces another interest group in the control of the central center, not just a one-person matter.
The defeat of the old man with white eyebrows, even if he has his own factors, but in the final analysis, it is also under the background of this era, the power of the famous military family is indeed much stronger than the power of the cold family of the military family, if this is not the case, why before the coup d'état, no one reported to the old man with white eyebrows?
And Ning Yiwu also knew that the personal ability of the old man without a shadow was not even as strong as that of the old man with white eyebrows, but he only won the coup d'état by virtue of his status as a famous military family.
In Ning Yiwu's opinion, the old man with white eyebrows back then was indeed very wise from the perspective of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, this kind of means of assassinating Ning Hongyuan to arouse his anger and lose his ability to judge, and launch a crusade against the Ten Thousand Swords Sect.
If Ning Hongyuan was really assassinated by the Ten Thousand Sword Sect, Ning Yiwu, who was in pain of losing his son, might really be caught by the old man with white eyebrows, if so, the geographical advantage of the Divine Sword Sect would be gone, and the geographical advantage of "one man should be the pass, ten thousand people will not be opened" will lose its meaning.
And through the information transmitted back these days, Ning Yiwu has already learned that the old man with white eyebrows is preparing for a sudden war.
In other words, the Shadowless Old Man thought that the old man's policy was extremely wrong, and his surprise attack strategy was the best policy.
Therefore, this war is menacing and inevitable.
As for why Ning Yiwu can only shrink back into defense and not take the initiative to attack, it is his long-term plan, a wise choice, war is to fight money, now even though the internal economy of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect has collapsed, but its foundation is still there, and the alchemy family that controls the economic lifeline is still there, not to mention that there is also a Liu Qingyi who is good at financial management to help the Shadowless Old Man, if the Shadowless Old Man can take advantage of these favorable conditions, step by step, and wait until the social class contradictions in the world have violent turmoil, such as the rebel army in all directions, and the Ten Thousand Swords Sect will take this opportunity to launch a war, and the Divine Sword Sect will be unable to withstand such an attack。
On the other hand, when the world is still a little peaceful now, when the various sects have not fought for seven or eight years, they suddenly launch an attack on the Divine Sword Sect and take the lead in provoking incidents, then the Divine Sword Sect will have a chance to reverse the situation of strength and weakness.
Everyone knows that waging a war requires far more funds and more opportunities than the defense of the homeland, and the initiators of wars in history often failed more, and the reason why they succeeded was naturally because of a God-given opportunity, either the internal disharmony of the invaded side, or the invaded side was caught off guard, or the invaded side lost its fighting spirit.
Is there disharmony within the Divine Sword Sect? It seems to be discord, but in fact, there are far more elders and generals who follow Ning Yiwu than those who oppose Ning Yiwu.
Ning Yiwu was always preparing for war, and his nerves were tense every minute and every second, and he told his general more than once and again that it was possible for the Ten Thousand Sword Sect to fight tonight.
Are the Divine Sword Sect Losing Their Fighting Spirit? These generals are worried that they will not have the opportunity to fight, and they are worried in their hearts! Among the new decrees promulgated by Ning Yiwu, there are hundreds of military decrees; if there is no war, these young soldiers still think that the "military decrees" are just a blank piece of writing, and they are eager for war before it is too late, and they are hoping to win the title by killing the enemy and making meritorious contributions, and they will also become high-ranking figures.
At this moment, Ning Yiwu walked into the combat conference room, and there was no one else in the conference room except Zhuge Long.
"I didn't expect you to be earlier than me!" Ning Yiwu replied so politely.
Zhuge Long immediately got up and saluted with both hands, "The sect master leads by example, how can his subordinates be late?"
Ning Yiwu waved his hand and signaled that it was okay, "There are a lot of things that happened today, the generals are busy, give them a little time, have you made a count? How much money is still in the treasury of our Divine Sword Sect now!"
Zhuge Long immediately took out the documents that had been prepared, and then presented them, Ning Yiwu was shocked when he saw it, "Wow, how can there be so much money! This is enough for my Divine Sword Sect to eat for ten years!"
Zhuge Long bowed with both hands, "This is all the credit of the suzerain's new policy, after the implementation of the new policy in the past five years, the major markets are no longer as lifeless as before, except for the alchemy market, there is competition between each other and vitality!
Ning Yiwu smiled heartily and patted him on the shoulder, " Hey, this is all because you manage money very well, to be honest, I really admire you, such a small territory as our Divine Sword Sect, actually let you manage so much money, think about the Qinglong Sect, the territory is three times larger than my Divine Sword Sect, but unfortunately the funds have leaked out, these days I have received letters, there are many Qinglong Sect's alchemy family giants, a local force, the most taboo is the flight of merchants, they wrote me a letter, they all said that our Divine Sword Sect's alchemy market is fair, and they all want to move to us, this is all your good management!”
"It's all the 'Flying Shadow' and 'Shadow' cultivated by the Sect Master that support this change!"
Ning Yiwu smiled heartily, "Since they didn't come, let's talk about our hearts, in fact, when I first took over this Divine Sword Sect, I wanted to reform within a few years, but at that time, you advised me to raise people first, if I hadn't listened to your opinion, I'm afraid I would have been knocked out of power a long time ago!"
Zhuge Long also simply became insipid, "Later, the sect master will make me the acting sect master, and the sect master will go to various places in the heavenly region to find talents!
"After I returned to the Divine Sword Sect, many people came to give me small reports, saying that you used this generation of sect master to do something, I don't believe anything, but there is one thing I believe!"
"I don't know what the sect master is!"
Ning Yiwu stroked his beard and laughed: "That's your loyalty to me! This is the tacit understanding between you and me!"
"The Sect Master has won a prize!"
"I didn't have an award, at that time I originally planned to hand over the Divine Sword Sect to you to manage, and I became the general of the Divine Sword Sect to command the Quartet and do my old job, but you said that you would only manage money and would not do anything else!"
"The sect master is above, and his subordinates know that their abilities are shallow, and they can't say some words on the stage, so they can't be qualified for the position of the sect master of this Divine Sword Sect!"
"Okay, let's not talk about these polite words, this money can support our Divine Sword Sect for a few years in this war?"
"It can support it for three years at most, if the Divine Sword Sect can't defeat the Ten Thousand Swords Sect by then, our Divine Sword Sect will have a financial deficit!"
"Three years! That's a lot? I thought it was only one year!"
"It's just that I don't know what the sect master told me, when will the reform of the alchemy industry take place?"
Ning Yiwu waved his hand, "The industry of refining medicine is very special, it is very different from other industries in this Heavenly Domain, you have to take your time!"