"So the ancestor now has a choice, which is the Taiping Road?" Zhuge Liang is a smart man. As for Su Fan's purpose of coming to Kyushu this time, he guessed something through just a brief exchange.
"That's right! I won't hide it from you. When I come here this time, it is estimated that there are many people with outstanding abilities in your Zhuge family, especially you, who is an eternal talent."
"If you train him well, I'm afraid he won't be worse than Li Silu Buwei of Great Qin."
Zhuge Liang suddenly showed a rare embarrassment at Su Fan's compliment.
"My ancestor praised me so much, how dare Liang compare with those two prime ministers?"
Although Zhuge Liang is very confident and even arrogant, and he will not look down on others easily, but for the two prime ministers of Da Qin, Zhuge Liang really has no intention of comparing himself to them at this moment.
The more he understands the history of Da Qin, the more he understands how powerful Da Qin is.
Indeed, Ying Zheng, the eternal human emperor, was indeed an extraordinary and absolute example of an emperor, who brought the Qin Dynasty to terrifying heights.
However, the development of the Qin Dynasty to such a height was not only due to the emperor, but also the ministers, especially the two generations of prime ministers, also made great contributions.
Lu Buwei, a saint in the business world, today's merchants are actually able to achieve their current status thanks to this business saint.
In this world, Shang Sheng is no longer Fan Li, but the Prime Minister of Da Qin, who single-handedly raised merchants to a high status.
Although merchants do not have unique methods of cultivation, merchants' abilities can facilitate the communication of an empire, especially the development of all walks of life, which cannot be separated from the promotion of merchants.
Da Qin governed the country according to Legalism, but the industry within the entire country was very prosperous, and it was inseparable from merchants.
Even today, Liu Han only respects Confucianism, but business is still very prosperous, even better.
If a businessman could not be an official, it would be in vain, and Confucian businessmen also had a high status in Liu Han.
As for Li Si, another Legalist giant, Zhuge Liang also admired him very much.
Although Zhuge Liang studied Confucianism, he knew clearly that Confucian governance had little effect at all. Even if Liu Han today uses Confucianism, it is still based on external Confucianism and internal law.
The greatest advantage of Confucianism is that it brings together hundreds of schools of thought and absorbs hundreds of other schools of thought.
Of course, Zhuge Liang also had a bad opinion about Legalism, that is, the strategy of weakening the people was not a good choice in his opinion.
Zhuge Liang felt that whether a country is strong or not depends not only on its army, but the Qin Dynasty was indeed so powerful that it unified the world and became an unparalleled dynasty in all nine states.
Da Qin's army could even fight with gods.
However, from Zhuge Liang's perspective, Great Qin still had not exerted all its power. Indeed, Great Qin's army amounted to hundreds of millions.
But so what, the entire Great Qin, with a population of hundreds of billions, has only used one thousandth, or even one ten thousandth, of this power.
The policy of weakening the people means that hundreds of millions of people have not contributed their due strength. Even though the small people are small, once they gather together, they can also exert terrible power.
An empire, on the other hand, has an army. If everyone in Great Qin was like a dragon, then the power of Great Qin would probably be even more terrifying.
But it is a pity that Legalism focuses on the weak people.
Of course, Zhuge Liang also guessed the concerns of the Legalists. Once the people at the bottom become like dragons, it will definitely be difficult to manage.
Confucianism uses literature to disrupt the law, and chivalrous people use force to break the law. With force, it will be difficult to manage, and even rebellion will be easier.
Just like a monk, he always yearns for freedom and does not want to be bound. The focus of Legalism is a bondage and rules.
But in Zhuge Liang's opinion, this can be tried.
The strength of the Qin Dynasty at that time, even if the people were strong, was definitely no match for the Qin army, and the people and the court were not antagonistic.
As long as Haosheng guides him, this force will actually become a boost to the court.
Of course, Zhuge Liang was not a member of the Qin Dynasty, and he had nothing to say about the policies of the Qin Dynasty, not to mention that the Qin Dynasty was no longer around.
However, his philosophy places more emphasis on the people at the bottom. He believes that the power of the common people cannot be underestimated.
It's just that his idea is indeed a bit different. After all, in this extraordinary world, the idea that water can both carry and capsize a boat has no advantage.
The people at the bottom are just cannon fodder to those at the top, who can be harvested at will, and no one will ever take them seriously.
Even Da Qin is like this. Da Qin just ensures that those people can survive.
When it comes to Liu Han, it is no longer even possible to guarantee their survival.
The times are like this, and Zhuge Liang's ideas are somewhat out of place.
But he was appreciated by Su Fan because he believed in the power of the people, not to mention that in the future, Kyushu will no longer have extraordinary spiritual ideas, and the only ones left will be mortals, and the power of mortals, with the help of science, can also kill gods.
It is true that nuclear weapons may only threaten the monks of Nascent Soul, but in the future science can invent more powerful weapons, such as particle cannons and star destroyer cannons.
As long as the human race continues to study these, there will be enough opportunities.
Zhuge Liang's idea is very suitable for the Tao of Peace.
Therefore, Zhuge Liang was naturally somewhat interested in the Tao of Taiping proposed by Su Fan.
It's just that Su Fan praised him for being better than Li Silu Buwei, but he still can't bear it now.
"If Lu Buwei and Li Si can do it, I believe you can do it too."
By giving Wu Hou a chance to show his full potential, Su Fan believed that the latter would never be let down by Lu Buwei and the others in the future.
It is true that Lu Buwei, Li Si and others are very important to Great Qin, and they indeed exerted a decisive force.
But Zhuge Liang is definitely not bad.
And the key point is that Zhuge Liang's ideas are similar to his and similar to the Tao of Taiping, so he is a like-minded Taoist.
Although Zhang Liao and others are not weak in ability and are still generals, in fact, their improvement is not very big for Taiping Dao.
There will be no shortage of such generals in Taiping Road in the future, even if Zhang Liao enters the Martial Temple in history.
But once Taipingdao established a modern army like that of later generations, Zhang Liao's effectiveness in the army would be greatly reduced.
After all, the emergence of the staff system allows the army to maximize its strength. Even if they meet the God of War in the future, in fact, as long as they don't make mistakes, the army will be almost invincible.
In the battles of later generations, it was no longer about military tactics, it was all about logistics.
Of course, the art of war is definitely useful, but if you want to do it like in ancient times, it is almost impossible.
In the Taipingdao army, maybe three cobblers can't stand up to one Zhuge Liang, so let's have thirty or three hundred of them.