Chapter One Hundred and Thirty Nine: Control Chaos Cycle (Happy New Year Everyone)
Half a month later
Beihai County, a certain county, somewhere in a courtyard
"Senior Brother Gongyou, are you okay?" Looking at the familiar senior brother in front of him, Cui Yan's mind instantly flashed back to the days when we all studied together under Zheng Xuan's sect and made progress every day two years ago.
Seeing the dusty Cui Yan, Sun Qian was also very excited. He took the initiative to hold Cui Yan's hands and couldn't speak to himself for a long time.
After a long time, the two entered the door. In order to entertain Cui Yan, Sun Qian killed a chicken, bought two kilograms of rice wine, and fried an egg for Cui Yan in an iron pot he had just bought from Gaochang County.
The two chatted while eating, recounting their experiences.
About two years ago, a group of Yellow Turban thieves set out from Xuzhou to conquer Beihai. In order to avoid the persecution of this group of strongmen, Zheng Xuan dismissed his disciples and took refuge in Xuzhou himself.
At that time, Cui Yan left Beihai and began to wander around. During this period, he went to Shouchun, the Yangtze River and other places, wandering around the countryside and outdoors for a long time.
Although Cui Yan came from the Cui family of Qinghe and was a son of an authentic aristocratic family, he was not as unworthy as later generations imagined.
He truly read thousands of books, traveled thousands of miles, held a sword in hand, killed thieves, traveled around, read and walked, and applied the knowledge he learned in practice.
Sun Qian was also one of the few disciples who received Zheng Xuan's true teachings. Although Cui Yan also received Zheng Xuan's teachings, he only studied for less than a year before encountering the Yellow Turbans' attack on Beihai, so he could not be considered a true disciple.
Therefore, Cui Yan still admired his senior brother Sun Qian very much. This time he planned to return to his hometown in Qinghe. Before leaving, he specially came to Beihai County to see his senior brother Sun Qian.
Listening to Cui Yan's personal experience, Sun Qian was also filled with emotion.
Two years ago, the junior brother in front of me was not very impressive, he was just one of the many disciples under the teacher.
At that time, Sun Qian noticed Cui Yan mainly for two reasons: First, Cui Yan came from the Cui family of Qinghe, he was a real county magistrate, and he was a son of an aristocratic family. Second: Cui Yan did not have the arrogance of other aristocratic families. Instead, I can calm down and study seriously.
Today, the two junior brothers talked again. Sun Qian could feel Cui Yan's strong talent. He could feel from the conversation that this junior brother was really different!
"We haven't seen you for two years. Junior brother's strength is already comparable to that of a famous person. Even if he directly serves as the magistrate of a large county, it is no problem. With a little experience, he can be the governor of a county in the future!"
In the real world, of course, it is impossible to be as described in martial arts novels, with first-rate, second-rate, third-rate, and last-rate, and there are also a series of levels such as super first-rate, peerless, grand master, heavenly being, etc.
However, there is no clear division, which does not mean that there is no balance in everyone's psychology. If outsiders don't know who is strong and who is weak, how can the insiders not know?
So slowly, a rough division was made.
The lowest level is a scholar. As long as spiritual power is born, a scholar is considered a scholar. Scholars have developed many wonderful uses with the help of the characteristics of spiritual power.
Ordinary people who have not practiced cultivation cannot capture personal thoughts. Every moment, a large number of thoughts disappear. When these thoughts disappear, they will be captured by scholars with their mental power.
Then the scholars will be able to know what you were thinking at the last moment. Did you lie? What did you hide?
Therefore, it is very convenient for scholars to serve as officials.
Their ability has obviously suppressed the ordinary people. The ordinary people said they did not lie or did anything bad. When the scholars scanned their mental power, they understood everything!
This is why when Sun Qian saw Cui Yan, he directly said that he could serve as the magistrate of a large county. If he could skillfully use his external mental power, he could suppress all the food-fighting officials.
Although purely from experience, officials cannot defeat local officials, but when officials can cheat, when officials can directly know what the officials are thinking, the officials will no longer be able to defeat them.
At this time, officials can truly grasp the power and become real county magistrates instead of puppets of a group of petty officials, instead of being manipulated, deceived, and fooled by local powerful people.
Then there are celebrities. The spiritual power of celebrities can already slightly interfere with reality. At this stage, celebrities can directly call on the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to perform spells, call wind and rain on a small scale, and change the terrain on a small scale. There is no problem at all.
If you risk your life, the power of the spell will be even greater.
Above the celebrities is the Confucian scholar.
Great Confucian scholars can directly accept the recruitment of the imperial generals, prime ministers, and the emperor himself. Once they become officials, their starting point is very high. They start directly from Lang Guan. In less than a year, they can be promoted to the high position of Jiu Qing. Everyone is still convinced.
The most typical one is Cai Yong. When Dong Zhuo promoted Cai Yong, within three days, he successively held the posts of Shi Yushi, Zhi Shu Shi Yushi, Shangshu, Shi Zhong, Zuo Zhonglang, etc., and was granted the title of Marquis of Gaoyang Township...
Listening to Sun Qian's compliment, Cui Yan took a bite of the chicken leg and said, "What's the use of celebrities? Did celebrities save the Han Dynasty? Can celebrities save the world?"
"We are all scholars, and we all know that there is a problem in the world. Over the years, generations of scholars have worked hard to solve the problem in the world. At the beginning, we thought that the problem lay with the eunuchs. It's because of the treacherous officials, and then we assist the general in fighting the eunuchs."
"However, the general (Dou Wu) was killed by the eunuchs. The eunuchs began to take full revenge, and the disaster of the party's imprisonment became more intense. Later..."
From the first disaster of party imprisonment to the second disaster of party imprisonment, to the Yellow Turban Rebellion, to Dong Zhuo's entry into Beijing, and now, Cui Yan became more and more tired as he talked.
"Now that the world is in chaos, Yan doesn't know what to do, so he has the idea of going home to study."
Hearing this, Sun Qian laughed: "As expected of you, I had similar doubts before. Until a few days ago, when I saw these articles, I felt like I was enlightened and all my doubts disappeared. ."
"Oh? Could it be that Master Zheng has published a new article? Come on, take it out and show it to me." Cui Yan stood up excitedly, not caring whether his behavior was in line with etiquette.
Sun Qian took out a box from the side. After opening the box, there was a completed thread-bound book on it. On the cover of the thread-bound book were white words on a blue background: "Circle of Chaos Control·Part 1"
"This "Circle of Chaos Control" was written by Xia Zi. This book contains a total of thirty-six articles, with pictures and texts, as well as many tables, line charts, curve charts, and pie charts, totaling one hundred and twenty-five pages. The total number of words is about 80,000, and it discusses the reasons for the rise and fall of dynasties from various directions."
"This first article is called Dynasty Cycle Theory. From the perspective of land annexation, it tells the fundamental reason why it is difficult for a unified dynasty to spend three hundred years peacefully. The above analysis is from the perspective of arithmetic. The point of view is very bold and novel... …”