On the night of the same day, the generals were arranged to stay overnight in the Xiangxin Pavilion east of the Bailing Garden, and on the second day, they continued to summon the generals one by one, and summoned eighteen people on that day, with an average of half an hour to forty minutes per person, and on the third day, King Xian only saw twelve people, Gao Pei was in the column, and officially served as the governor of the Liang army.

Until the fourth day, there were still nine people left in the building, and Bai Liyan began to wonder if King Xian had received the generals in the order of first come, first served. He was the last military attache to rush to the Military Division to collect the tooth plate, and as things stand, it would definitely be his turn to be the last, or even the last.

In the afternoon, before two o'clock, there were still four people left including him, and the eunuch came to announce again, this time it was finally the turn of Baili Yanmian Jun.

"Where is Wei Xian, the pioneer of the Guangxin Army?"

The eunuch snorted in a feminine voice, and glanced at the room, there were still four people left in the huge building, and one of them came up and saluted:

"Below is Wei Xian, the pioneer of the Guangxin Army."

"The king summoned you, come with us."

The chamberlain led the way, passing through the heavily guarded palace gate, all the way to the depths of the Bailing Garden.

Bailing Garden is located in the east of the palace, built by the mountains and rivers, there are many pavilions for the Xianwang to stay overnight, the outdoor space is extremely empty, the generals are summoned here, and people with ulterior motives can be prevented from listening to the contents.

When I came to a lake, I saw a middle-aged man sitting on a black background with red embroidered gold silk and silver thread on a black background, facing east and west, holding a fishing rod, and fishing in the river with great interest.

"General, please wait here for a while, and our family will go and report to the king."

After that, the inner eunuch Wu stepped forward, the king of Xian put down the fishing rod and looked back, and saw a young and strong tiger in armor with a bear waist and a majestic waist, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and show a shocked face, and ordered the eunuch to retreat, and the king of Xian stepped forward with his hands in the back:

"General Wei, a young hero, when I saw it today, it really deserved its name."

"Wei Xian, see the king."

Bailiyan (Wei Xian) bowed, King Xian looked at it with a good nature, and said when he was young:

"General Wei is exempt from courtesy, how about accompanying the widow."

"The last will obey."

Xianwang Jiang Hai is just forty this year, in the prime of life, the height is the same as Baili, a little blessed, compared to the common people, Xianwang only looks in his thirties, very young. There is no joy, anger or sorrow on his face, calm as autumn water, or rather, it is unpredictable.

As soon as he took two steps, King Xian pointed to the lake in front of him and said:

"General Wei can know how many big fish are under the surface of this lake, and how many small fish are geometric."

Bai Liyan was puzzled, and shook her head calmly:

"The last general is dull, please make it clear to the king."

King Xian stared at him and smiled indifferently:

"General Wei is a smart man, if the widow changes his words, Wei Xianfeng should understand. There are always many more small fish in this lake than big fish, and only in this way can the big fish be fed, and the small fish will continue to feed the big fish, and so on and so forth, the big fish will always be the big fish, and the small fish will always be the small fish, each for its own life, each for its own boundary. General Wei thought that the world could do the same. ”

"The king's meaning is understood, and the general also has a question and wants to ask the king."

"Oh, General Wei, please speak."

"Does the king know how many kinds of fish there are in the world?"

"Well, there are more than thirty kinds of food that the widow has seen and eaten." Jiang Hai twisted his long beard and said, but he didn't think that thirty kinds was already the limit.

At this time, Bailiyan said:

"If the last general said that there are tens of thousands of different kinds of fish in the world, can the king believe it?"

"Widow believes, what does General Wei mean by this?"

"Then I will talk about three kinds of fish that the king has never seen before."

"Which three?"

"A Chinese name is called piranha, this kind of small fish is only half the size of a palm, a single piranha is as timid as a mouse, it is difficult to make waves, but if hundreds of thousands of people gather, piranhas will dare to set off wind and waves, even if the opponent is tens of thousands of times their own, a group of piranhas also dare to attack in groups, only in a moment, can eat a huge buffalo and only white bones, and this kind of piranha is eaten by another big fish.

The second type of fish is called shark, which is as large as a boat, hidden in the deep sea, and can eat people. But there is something strange about this kind of shark. ”

"What's the blame?" Jiang Hai asked.

"These sharks eat everything, big or small, and if they smell the slightest bit of blood, they will kill each other.

The third kind is called the white stripe, the number is so huge that it is innumerable, just like the small fish in this lake, it can only be slaughtered by others. As the king said, it is natural for big fish to eat small fish, and small fish to live endlessly, but if the small fish are eaten up, how can the big fish live. ”

"General Wei is trying to say that there is no definite number in the whole world, and there will come a day when big fish will be eaten by the weak or the strong."

"Yes, the reason why the king is the king is because the foundation created by the ancestor of the king has been passed down to this day, and the reason why the people support the king is that the people can be fed and clothed, and the people are content. If the king could not satisfy the people, he would sweep through the Central Plains like a thief with a black scarf, and the big fish could eat the small fish, and the small fish could starve the big fish to death.

This is the last general's foolish opinion, and the disrespectful place is still expected to be seen by the king. ”

"Hahaha......" Jiang Hai laughed, but there was no anger at all. Zhao Xun said that you dare to speak, and in the eyes of the widow, it is better to say that General Wei sees it clearly. ”

"The last general will not dare."

King Xian used the metaphor of the current world and the existing political pattern with the big fish eating the small fish and the small fish reproducing endlessly, which was intended to set the tone for today's conversation.

To put it bluntly, the king is still the king, the people are still the people, and Jiang Hai's bottom line is for Bailiyan to maintain his absolute rule. Presumably, what King Xian wants is only his permanent throne and rights, and he doesn't care about the lives and deaths of others.

The biggest advantage of this kind of emperor is that he can use people with confidence, and the fatal flaw is also in employing people.

As long as Jiang Hai's rights and throne are guaranteed, he can rest assured that he will throw off all his rights, and when he meets the capable ministers of Wenzhi and martial arts, he can open a peaceful and prosperous era and create a good story of the combination of kings and ministers through the ages. If you appoint incompetent officials, the scourge will be the common people in the world.

If something is good, it is called to let go of your hands and do it, and if something happens, there is a widow around, and if you say something unpleasant, it is called to delegate power and do whatever you want, and the widow is not responsible.

Prime Minister Gongsun Yue admired the Tao of Eloquence, the core essence of the Chengdao School of Guang Shuzi is to respect the king, the difference is that the Tao of Eloquence is radical and unscrupulous, its internal theoretical system is complex, and there are many factions, there is no more unified ideological theory, the ideology and theory of the Chengdao School is complete, and the governance of the country is also quite accomplished, and there is a degree of gradual discipline in case of trouble.

The failure of Gongsun Yue's reforms, the corruption of his relatives inside and outside, and the outbreak of the Black Turban Army, made King Xian, who held great power, not feel the slightest sense of security, but felt that his life could not be saved.

Coupled with the boiling of public resentment and the revelation of the Muyangcang scandal, his tolerance for the idea of eloquence and Taoism was reached to the limit, and under various internal and external factors, the appearance of Uncle Guang just prompted King Xian to change his ways, re-establish the power structure, introduce new ideas of governance, and stabilize the ruling foundation.

King Xian took the lead in setting the tone of the conversation, Baili Yanxiao reasoned, it was necessary to let King Xian know the current situation, it was no longer the way of the world, without the common people, the king was nothing.

The conversation continued, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

"General Wei's opinion on the current war situation, you might as well tell the widow to listen."

"King Qiqi, the last general will not dare to speak highly, but he is just a little foolish. In my opinion, Uncle Guang's words are not unreasonable, and there is indeed merit. ”

"It can make the land of Xianguo become a scorched earth, and the widow is indeed unwilling."

This is what the last general is about to talk about. It has been half a year since the Black Turban Army uprising, and the Central Plains powers have suffered great losses.

As far as the current situation is concerned, the countries have not recovered from the popular uprising, the Black Turban Army will not attack the Lingling, and it is indeed possible that the division will advance westward, or go north, and the inside and outside should jointly attack the Sishui River and advance westward, if the Xian Army drags the Black Turban Army in the Xian country, it will give the countries a chance to breathe.

But in this way, Xianxi, Qiunan, and half of the capital counties will be lost, and in the future, the combined forces of the nations will also gather and annihilate them, and they will join forces to annihilate the Black Turban Army in the land of Xian, and the unlucky one is still Xianguo. And after the war, although the king can get the help of Uncle Guang, what can Xianguo and the people of Xianguo get. ”

"What he said is extremely true, and the widow deeply cares, General Wei continued."

"The last general thinks that the black turban army is dragging in Xianguo, but Xianguo can't get no benefits at all, especially the Jin army stationed in Xianguo 250,000 people, 150,000 stay in Lei Cheng motionless, in the long run, these 250,000 Jin troops will rely on the year of the monkey Ma Yue, in case in the future in the name of asking for troops to quell the rebellion, long-term stationing, this Xianguo may also have to become the Xianjun of the Jin State."

Uncle Guang thought that in ten or fifteen years, the Central Plains would become a fire and water, and it would be inevitable for the Jin Kingdom and other countries to compete for hegemony.

The widow, no, the widow's prince still has the opportunity to help the Xianguo. I only hate the battle of Jiangdong back then, the widow listened to the slander and missed the fighter.

If General Wei had been able to help him earlier, Xianguo would not have fallen to the point where it is today. Fifteen years later, the widow may not be able to see it, the widow is just unwilling to let the land of Xianguo be reduced to scorched earth and rubble. General Wei said that the Xianguo did not benefit at all, and listening to the general's words, could the general be able to win benefits for the widowed Xianguo? ”

"The last general doesn't dare to speak wildly, the last general just wants to ask the king about it, if the king agrees, this matter is the great benefit of the Xian country, no less than getting the land of the three counties."

"Oh, General Wei won't be as pompous as Gongsun Yue."

"Dare to ask the king, if the people of Sun Kingdom are willing to be the subjects of the king, the king is willing to accept the people of Sun Kingdom as people, and cultivate and reproduce on the land of Xian Country from generation to generation."

"As long as the widow pays the land labor and fights for the Xianguo, the widow treats them like the people of the Xianguo."

"If it is the people of Zhiguo, Xuguo, and Changsun Kingdom, the king can also treat each other like this?"

"What does General Wei mean?"

"The last general will dare to speak, and the countries will be in turmoil."

Why is that? There are only more than 6 million people in Xianguo, and after half of Xianxi, Qiunan, and Dujun were occupied, there are now only more than 4 million left. There are tens of millions of black scarves, how can Xianguo accommodate tens of millions of people, how can Xianguo still be a few people. ”

"King, the reason why the rebels rebelled was because they had no food and clothing, and they had to rebel. As the folk saying goes, 'the people take food as the sky', the people do not regard the king as their parents, but as the production of the land as their parents, and the king is the lord of the land in the world.

The king also said that as long as the people of Sun paid their natural labor for the king, and shed blood for the Xian country, why was the king afraid of these tens of millions of rebellious people. ”

"If the Xian Kingdom has a population of 30 million like the Jin Kingdom, what does it matter if it can accommodate 5 million chaotic people. And now the number of chaotic people is three times that of Xianguo, so how can the widow rest assured. One day, when the nations invade, and the people in turmoil should join forces with each other and rebel, will the widows not lift a stone and shoot themselves in the foot? ”

"What the king said is very true, but the people of the rebellion are more populous than the people of Xian. Therefore, the king should win the hearts of the people with extraordinary courage, ten or twenty years later, the people of the chaos will be passed down from generation to generation, and their children and grandchildren will all be Xianguo people, if the king can see this, even if the two counties of Xianxi and Qiunan are lost, there are tens of millions of people behind the king to rely on, and who dares to invade Xianguo. ”