Sima Jun never worried about his eldest grandson. In addition to his strong abilities, Sima Lang also had extraordinary communication skills. In addition, he had an open-minded personality and could enjoy himself anywhere.
The second grandson Sima Yi, from Sima Jun's point of view, is a treasure with the same characteristics as him, and there will be no problem in passing it on to the family. He has a first-class life, and may not be the top of his generation in terms of ability, but he can take top-notch guys. Live to death while talking and laughing.
This is just like him, Sima Jun. Is Sima Jun excellent? In fact, he is just average. According to the one hundred full value of Machiavellian Wisdom, Sima Jun is in his early nineties. This level is not very powerful at the top level, but Sima Jun is a cautious and prudent person, and he is particularly stubborn.
Although Sima Jun hangs out with Chen Ji and Xun Shuang all the year round, pretending that they are of the same generation, in fact Sima Jun is twenty years older than the two of them. All the people of Sima Jun's era who are more intelligent than him are all dead. Sima Jun survived by clinging to life and became invincible.
This is why Sima Jun appointed Sima Yi as the head of the Sima family. Maybe Sima Yi is not the best among this generation, but a cautious and long-lived head is enough for a big family like the Sima family.
Take Xun Shuang for example, he is so strong, he is so strong. In the last era, no civil servant dared to say that he was stronger than Xun Shuang, but is it useful? It is completely useless!
For the top aristocratic families, those who cannot change the general social environment or shake the rules head-on, as long as they are over 90, there is basically no difference.
After all, when it has developed to this level, the aristocratic family is no longer playing low-level games such as individual intelligence and money and power transactions, but an all-round game under the existing rules.
In this way of playing, the head of the family's intelligence only accounts for a part, and it is not the largest part. Resources, connections, and background all affect the game between both parties.
In addition, this kind of game is not a two-player game like Go. Basically, there are seven or eight main players in the same era, as well as a group of younger brothers who are fighting for the fire.
In this case, a wise man who cannot change the general social environment does not actually mean much. This is also the reason why aristocratic families dare to sacrifice the head of the family when necessary. For a good head of the family, they can always find alternatives.
This is also the reason why Chen Xi is listed in another tier by major aristocratic families. Chen Xi's appearance has changed the current game environment.
Originally, all major aristocratic families were just like playing Go, they had to be classy and graceful, and each of them pretended to be special. However, one day Chen Xi came out and watched Go for a long time. He didn't learn it and was ridiculed. So he angry!
I stopped playing, and then I took out Alpha Dog, what kind of god's hand, what kind of tempering, all kinds of skills, all kinds of skills, all of them were killed, and then I kicked this seemingly high-end game with countless auras off the altar. .
After finishing this, Chen Xi said that I have developed a new game. Do you want to play it? What else can I say at this time? Play it. You are so strong that you can even overturn the chessboard. Whatever you say, even if you The rules are unreasonable. We can't play such low-level things anymore. After all, if we work hard all our lives and fail to catch up with the dog, we will lose our grade.
Just like that, a new era has arrived, but the arrival of a new era does not mean that the gameplay accumulated in the previous games has completely lost its effectiveness. During this period, some people abandoned the old gameplay, some made innovations, and some kept the best from the previous gameplay. , each family has its own way.
After all, there is only one Chen Xi, and it is not his own. Each family can only respond to the new rules with a more suitable attitude.
Under this general premise, some things will undergo drastic changes, while some things still need to be maintained.
Just like now, Sima Jun still chooses Sima Yi, a cautious player of Gou Mingliu, as the successor of the next generation of their Sima family, but he calls out Sima Fu, who was originally cultivated as the shadow of the family leader and used in power struggles, and re-cultivates him.
"Things like power struggles are games under rules, but in the coming era, political power struggles will no longer mean much. The next fifty years will be the era of military aristocracy, military tactics and strategies." Sima Jun said. Sima Fu said with a bit of melancholy, after so many years of training, he finally found that what he learned had basically lost its meaning. He would have known that he had learned the art of war.
"I have also learned the art of war and tactics." Sima Fu said confidently.
"You've learned nothing!" Sima Jun yelled, "If you go out with such an idea, I won't let you stay at home."
"Me?" Sima Fu was stunned for a moment, why did his grandfather suddenly curse? He had really studied the art of war, and he had read Sima's collection of books frequently. After discovering that the social environment had changed in the past few years, Sima Fu began to study the art of war in his spare time.
"Don't be unconvinced, let me ask you a simple question!" Sima Jun looked at Sima Fu with a sneer and said, this thief's grandson is still unconvinced. He ate ninety-year-old rice in vain!
"Say." Sima Fu said respectfully.
"You are a food transport team with 1,500 people. During the process of transporting food, you encountered enemy troops who came to cut off the food road. How should you respond?" Sima Jun sat up slightly, feeling cold. Face asked Sima Fu.
"Since it is a food transport team, at this time, we should quickly notify the front line and rear of the encounter situation, and then choose to burn food and retreat, or defend on the spot according to the situation." Sima Fu replied very calmly, this is the standard answer in the military manual.
"Alas." Sima Jun sighed, "Shuda, this is not your art of war, this is the art of war in the military book. I have asked this question to people who have experienced battles, to staff officers who have been on the battlefield, and to Chen Zichuan , their answers are different, but the core points are very similar, only your answer is the answer of the book of war."
"Does Marquis Chen know about military affairs?" Sima Fu said in a daze.
"He knows how to hide his clumsiness." Sima Jun looked at Sima Fu and said, "The reason why he was knighted for the first time was because he led a team with tens of thousands of troops to defeat millions of Yellow Turbans. He said he didn't understand. Do you understand?"
Sima Fu was silent for a while. Although it was such an important matter, it felt like everyone had forgotten about it. The impression left by Chen Zichuan on them always remained that of lazily sitting in the Political Yuan and the level of internal affairs that exceeded the limit.
"The answer to the book of war is the answer of the person who wrote the book. The author knows why, but you know it but don't know why." Sima Jun sighed and said, "I asked Chen Zichuan, and Chen Zichuan asked me what the other party was doing. Who knows my family’s food route? What are the frontline scouts doing? I haven’t accumulated enough logistics? The frontline actually needs to send food? What weapons and equipment does the opponent have, how many cavalry are there, are they equipped with iron cavalry, how many crossbowmen are there, are we equipped with Yuanrong crossbows, etc. …”
After Chen Xi asked a long series of questions, Sima Jun fell into silence, because according to what Chen Xi took out, theoretically such a situation would not be encountered, and Chen Xi was transporting grain. Think about the preparations for moving south, seven thousand people It's no use, without a large army commander and about 100,000 elite troops, it's just giving away people's lives.
However, if more than 100,000 people are dispatched, it is impossible to bypass the front line in any case, unless the opponent is strong enough to defeat the front line. The problem is that if the front line is defeated, then what is the struggle for their food transport team?
"A military book is a military book, you are you, you are still far behind!" Sima Jun sighed and said, "After you go there, learn a little more, don't act like a son of an aristocratic family, and meet veterans at the team leader level. , call me big brother when you should. On the battlefield, no one cares whether you are a son of a noble family."
After speaking, Sima Jun took out a scroll from the side and threw it to Sima Fu. Sima Fu didn't know why, but he still opened the scroll and felt a chill on his back.
"Do you really think it's easy to expand the territory? Who wouldn't risk their lives? We just start at a higher level. We are born aristocrats. Hmm, only you juniors believe it. The swords on the battlefield will not be used just because you are a noble. Let you go." Sima Jun looked at his grandson with a sneer.
Sima Fu nodded slowly, no longer as arrogant as before. On the scroll was a list of family members who died in the war during this year. There was even a record of the entire family being destroyed by bandits. And Sima Zhang, as Sima Fu's great-uncle was also among the casualties in the war.
It is difficult to expand territory. The combat effectiveness of the Eastern Han Dynasty families can be considered strong, but it is far behind the combat effectiveness of the pre-Qin nobles. Not counting weapons and equipment, as well as advances in military tactics, etc., the Eastern Han Dynasty The upper limit of the aristocratic family's combat power is only the lower limit of the pre-Qin nobles.
"Aristocratic families have been wiped out." Sima Fu said with a little shock. Unlike the power-seeking political battles in the Central Plains, even if you lose, you can seal the family to death, give up this lineage, and come back after a while, and leave. If the military nobles who pioneered the path of expanding their territory were defeated, they would really be wiped out.
"It's just that three families were destroyed." Sima Jun said coldly, "This path is the path of the strong. Playing with power will sooner or later destroy people. The killing sword is much more important than the power of the world. The sword is sharp enough and can rewrite the rules. , then power is at your fingertips, and the way the military aristocrats act is to use force as the main method, and strategy as a supplement, to attack them with force and appease them with justice."
This is completely different from what the aristocratic family plays. Strategies are very important, but the most important thing is the warning from the Sixth Division of the Emperor. It is not unheard of that if you can't fight with a quarrel, you will directly attack the border with an army.
Chu State's Qu Wan and even Guan Zhong can argue, but what's the point? The princes of Jiuhe warned, it depends on whether Chu State still wants to get along.
If you return to Suiguo, Suiguo has a lot of reasons to prove your innocence. The king of Chu just said "I am a barbarian" and started fighting and defeated you. What can you say?
When trying to reason with a military aristocrat, first check whether your muscles are big enough. If you are on the same level as the opponent, you are still qualified to play tricks. Otherwise, you are nothing!
To put it too much, the Hongnong Yang family is strong, but now the Runan Yuan family pretends that the Hongnong Yang family does not exist. The covenant IOUs back then were all paper. Can you really hit someone?
