Chapter 46: Digging Li Zicheng's Corner!
Li Xin listened dumbfounded as Wang Quan described the world outside the Ming Dynasty, and couldn't interject at all, just like the royal power who couldn't interject when he was talking about him at the beginning!
These things that Wang Quan is saying now have almost shattered Li Xin's worldview, he has always thought that the Ming Dynasty where he is located, this Central Plains land is the richest place in the whole world, except for the Central Plains, the rest of the world is Fanbang, and the people there are barbarians!
However, what I didn't expect was that the Fanbang barbarians I had always thought had already developed a culture that was comparable to my descendants of Yan and Huang, and even surpassed us in some aspects!
In fact, Li Xin was not wrong, before the Yuan Dynasty, the civilization of my descendants of Yan and Huang has always been ahead of the whole world, but because of the Song Dynasty, the royal family of the Great Song Dynasty was too heavy on literature and light on military force, and there was almost no trust in military generals, and the civilization of my descendants of Yan and Huang was destroyed by the enemy from the grassland using brute force, which made our civilization lose its leading position!
In the Ming Dynasty, when the West opened the Age of Exploration and the entire civilization began to progress at a rapid pace, the Ming royal family was always immersed in their dream of the Central Plains, firmly believing that navigation was just a practice of working the people and losing money, and even set the national policy of not entering the sea, completely ignoring the rise of Western civilization, causing the civilization of our descendants of Yan and Huang to miss the best opportunity for development and completely lag behind Western civilization!
Li Xin really wanted to tell himself that what Wang Quan said was false and deceived him, but his reason told him that everything Wang Quan said was true, and if it was false, he could not have said everything so reasonable! I thought that with my own knowledge, there were not many things in the world that I didn't know, but just now I found out that compared with the truly learned people, I was really ignorant!
When Li Xin came back to his senses, he saw that Wang Quan didn't know when he was no longer talking, just holding a cup of freshly brewed tea in both hands, drinking tea deliciously!
Li Xin looked at Wang Quan, who was calmly drinking tea, and finally sighed, and said: "Brother Wang, your erudition really makes Brother Wei very admired, but there is no need for us to go around in circles, just say it, you came all the way to find Brother Wei, what is it for?"
Wang Quan held the teacup in both hands and looked at Li Xin with a surprised face, but Li Xin smiled and said, "What? Do you think Brother Wei shouldn't guess that you came here to find Brother Wei on purpose?" Please, although Brother Wang, you are strong in martial arts, and you look energetic, and you don't have the tired appearance of ordinary people after a long journey, but from your clothes and the dust of this body, it is enough to see that you must have come to this Qi County after a long journey of several days, and after you came, you didn't even look for the inn, and you didn't clean up yourself, so you came directly to the brother, if the brother really can't guess that you came to find the brother on purpose, then the brother is probably not worth the thousands of miles you came to find the brother?”
Wang Quan smiled, and immediately said: "Brother Li is really discerning! The younger brother did fail to come to Brother Li specifically, but these things ......" Speaking of this, Wang Quan paused and looked at the people around him who were in charge of serving the two!
Seeing this, Li Xin's eyes were slightly condensed, and he hesitated for a moment, and finally waved his hand to let the people in the house retreat, and ordered them not to approach within a radius of ten zhang without his orders!
Subsequently, Wang Quan asked Nantianmen to check again, and determined that there were only two people within a radius of ten zhang, he and Li Xin, and told Nantianmen that once someone approached, he must be reminded immediately, and then said to Li Xin: "What does Brother Li think, how is Daming now?"
Although Li Xin had expected it, when he heard Wang Quan's words, he was still shocked in his heart, but he was also a smart person, after hearing Wang Quan's words, his face was still impassive, and he only heard him say: "Brother Wang is not like going around in circles, there is no third person here who can hear you and me talking, you just say what you have to say!"
When Wang Quan heard this, he immediately got straight to the point and said: "Brother Li, I want to ask you to build a brand new country with me, and then catch up, surpass those Western countries that are developing rapidly, and let my descendants of Yan and Huang stand on the top of the world again, how about it?"
Li Xin's eyes were still looking at Wang Quan's eyes, and he said, "Why did you choose me?"
Wang Quan said with a smile: "Brother Li, don't be presumptuous, you are a civil and military all-rounder who can write to calm the world, and martial arts can be used to determine the world, although my martial arts are higher than you, but I don't know anything about leading troops to fight, so, Brother Li, I need your help!"
Li Xin didn't agree immediately, he still looked at Wang Quan and asked: " Brother Wang, what you are going to do is too dangerous, if I, Li Xin, am alone, I will definitely help you immediately without saying a word, but you have also seen that I am not alone, there is such a big family behind me, no matter what choice I make, I will always be responsible for the family behind me, therefore, I must have enough understanding of what you are doing, I think it is possible to succeed, so I will choose to help you, can you tell me, what preparations have you made?"
Wang Quan was not disappointed, this is normal, if Li Xin agreed, Wang Quan couldn't believe it, hearing Li Xin's question, Wang Quan immediately said: "To be honest, Brother Li, I haven't made much preparation, at best, there are only more than two hundred recruits in training, and these people don't really belong to me at the moment, so to speak, I have nothing at present, but we are still young, and we have time, isn't it?"
Speaking of this, Wang Quan also saw the disappointment in Li Xin's eyes, but he didn't give up, and still said: "Brother Li, I'm only sixteen years old now, and I've just been down the mountain for three months, and it's normal to have nothing, but for the future, I have a very detailed plan, don't worry, listen to me carefully!"
This statement was directly said to the next day, Wang Quan first said that he brought from the later generations of advanced military training methods, Li Xin at first listened to a little unimpressed, but it didn't take long to be completely attracted, he had already seen that Wang Quan himself knew nothing about military training, everything was just that he borrowed a set of training methods that he didn't know where to go, and then combined with his own conjectures, it was just that it could not be realized in many places.
But I have to say that his training method is really good, with the help of Wang Quan's training method, combined with the training methods in those military books that Li Xin has read, Li Xin is confident that he can transform Wang Quan's training methods that are not very realistic into real training methods, and create a real strong army!