"You are now invincible. I am simply lost in thought." Chen Xi rolled his eyes and said, "Are you kidding me? You, Zhou Gongjin, must have reached this level. I don't think you are invincible at all."
, it’s far worse.”
Chen Xi didn't know what Zhou Yu was thinking deep in his heart at this moment, but Chen Xi could see the ripples in the glass of wine that Zhou Yu was holding. As a strong man with inner energy separated from the body, he couldn't even control his own claws.
Either he was pretending, or he was really hit hard in his heart.
"Are there any questions?" Chen Xi looked at Zhou Yu and said casually, "Although the old Chen family cannot compare with your Zhou family, and I, Chen Zichuan, am not as good as your Zhou Gongjin, but to be honest, our situations are similar, but I
I found that you were very swollen."
Zhou Yu no longer wants to talk. The inexplicable inflated mentality before was also burst by Chen Xi, so he is a little too lazy to talk. As for the invincible mentality that he had after defeating Selian, it has now subsided.
Already.
Although Chen Xi's words were not intense, it was precisely because of these not-too-intense words that Zhou Yu realized more clearly how much of a monster Chen Xi really was.
Even though he had known Chen Xi a long time ago and understood how powerful Chen Xi was, Chen Xi rarely said what he had done in front of others, and usually did it without saying anything.
When laying out the items one by one, even Zhou Yu had to say with conscience that compared to Chen Xi, he had indeed done only a small amount of work.
"Aren't you afraid of endless troubles?" Without Liu Bei present, Zhou Yu and Chen Xi are of the same age, and those young and frivolous people dare to speak, what kind of transgression, what kind of contempt, for these guys who are already standing at the top,
Doesn't exist at all.
"Don't be afraid, I'm better than you." Chen Xi looked at Zhou Yu and said calmly.
Zhou Yu was choked up. He really didn't believe that Chen Xi didn't know what he was asking.
"Actually, I know what you are asking, but if you think about it carefully, the time it takes for you to develop is almost a hundred years." Chen Xi said calmly, "You do have a shortage of territory and resources, but you lack a population.
.”
It goes without saying that the fighting power of the Han Dynasty was great, but if such a dynasty continued to expand, there would be a very big problem, and that was population.
A population of 50 million could be called a big country for any empire in ancient times, but it was too small for a country that spanned the Eurasian continent.
Fifty million people are scattered on the Eurasian road, with less than two people per square kilometer. Do you consider this an occupation? You are kidding!
Zhou Yu's way of thinking about problems is still the way of thinking of those kings with different surnames in the Han Dynasty. At most, it is because the central power is too strong. In addition, Zhou Yu's brain is enough, he thinks more carefully, and he has more ideas in his heart. He draws his own lines and doesn't touch them.
Hitting the theoretical danger zone.
But in fact, there is a big difference between the current enfeoffment and the enfeoffment of the ancient Han Dynasty. At least in the former, because the territory is too large, if some enfeoffed families run too far, they are really qualified to be the masses, and they will never appear.
Being involved in this kind of thing.
To put it bluntly, if the two kings, the two Cuisi, and the Wei family went to Africa and developed hundreds of years later, and then heard that a war broke out in Southeast Asia, would they be excited to participate in the cause of unification? No.
Yes, they will only make war profits.
The plate in the Central Plains is too small, so once someone turns on the unified mode, other guys who are unwilling to participate will also be dragged into the water. But in the current form, I have to stand by and watch. Can you really travel thousands of miles to beat me?
What Chen Xi seeks is a Han cultural circle, a circle based on a top empire, a large number of people with the same culture, the same species, cultural convergence, the same roots, and the same ideas.
Conflicts are inevitable in the future, but as long as the culture is completely consistent and they still identify with China, then even after experiencing wars and turmoil, they will still stand on top of the world in the end.
So Chen Xi doesn't mind at all the messing around with these guys who are thousands of miles away from the mainland. After all, no one will jump out before Chen Xi dies, and decades are enough to lay a foundation, and the rest is the future.
problem.
"Leave the affairs of future generations to future generations." Chen Xi said nonchalantly, "The things you are worried about are not actually problems, because they are so big that they really need a multi-management system. Single-core management is really
Can't do it."
"I can't control people's hearts." Zhou Yu said calmly. In fact, both Zhou Yu and Chen Xi knew that what they were thinking about was not the immediate problem, but the future problem.
"No one can control it. They will definitely fight back one day. I guess the most active one is the Yuan family, but you can't say for sure." Chen Xi shook his head and said, "But when the time comes, you can counterattack.
In other words, when we dare to counterattack, can the Central Plains still be weaker than you?"
In fact, what Chen Xi wants to say is that if he leaves such a foundation for the Central Plains and the currency of each feudal country is controlled by the central government, these large feudal countries can still defeat the Central Plains, then to be honest, the Central Plains will also
It's time to change someone.
Chen Xi didn't like the Eternal Lineage and was willing to help Liu Bei, not because Liu Bei was a clan member of the Han Dynasty, but because he met Liu Bei, and Liu Bei's three views were more recognized by Chen Xi, so Chen Xi went to help Liu Bei.
It's not the so-called "Three Prosperities of Yanhan", the destiny of the royal family named Liu.
Chen Xi doesn't like this. Although to a certain extent, Chen Xi also enjoys the benefits brought by these thousand-year lineages, this system needs to flow after all.
It should be over.
"So just do whatever you want, and nothing will happen to Yuanfeng Dynasty. I'm afraid you won't have time to mess around in the next dynasty. After defeating Kushan, we will probably have to rest for a long time, and the major families will also have to digest and consolidate.
Now that I am a feudal country, and you have to rest, I can't provide you with all kinds of things endlessly." Chen Xi looked at Zhou Yu and said.
"At present, the major families and the feudal vassal states seem to be very stable. In fact, you need to consider one thing. I am giving you a blood transfusion. To be honest, if I cut off these, the place you have conquered now will be
If it cannot be maintained, it will be a problem." Chen Xi looked at Zhou Yu and said.
"What I need is not occupation. What I need is for you to turn that place into a feudal state of the Han Dynasty. What is a feudal state? Even if the mainland cuts off your logistics line, you can still rely on your own feudal state output to continue.
Operation." Chen Xi said very seriously at this moment.
Except for Kalimantan, which is really barren, the other islands in Southeast Asia are actually fertile soil that can be used for farming. This is why Southeast Asia always accounts for a large part of the export of food and agricultural and sideline products in modern times.
The current situation of Sun Ce and Zhou Yu can only be said to have conquered Southeast Asia, but there are many things missing. This is not a feudal country, but an occupied zone.
A mature feudal state will influence the local area from all aspects of culture, education, and ideology, and finally transform the local area into an almost native state.
Just like in the Western Zhou Dynasty, at that time, the Chu State was a land of barbarians, and the Chu people were also barbarians. However, with the hundreds of years of hard work of successive Chu kings, by the time of the unification of the Qin Dynasty, the Chu State was almost inseparable from the Central Plains.
Part of it.
This is the meaning of feudalism. Without such a long period of assimilation, even if the Qin Dynasty unified by force, it would eventually lose the area south of the Yangtze River due to cultural conflicts and geographical issues. Currently, most of the places on the earth are
This situation.
That's why a large enough feudal state is needed to assimilate these places. After traces are spread all over these places, based on the centripetal force of culture and the unified thinking brought by the same culture and species, even if they cannot be unified in the end, they will still maintain a huge empire.
A cultural circle that leads countless small and medium-sized feudal states, supports each other, and maintains stable inheritance.
This is what Chen Xi wants. The current situation of Zhou Yu and Sun Ce is simply a waste of time. If they don't delve deeply into Southeast Asia, don't expand the population, and don't build various industries, what do you call a feudal country? What do you call developing towards the local area?
What a joke!
"What we want from the beginning is to have feudal states." Chen Xi looked at Zhou Yu and said calmly, "Even if there is a war in the future and reunification cannot be achieved, you still need to build those places into feudal states one by one. Only in this way will those places be able to
Acknowledge your identity from the bottom of your heart.”
"I didn't expect you were considering this issue." Zhou Yu nodded silently. He already understood Chen Xi's thinking. Zhou Yu had always considered it in terms of unification and the reduction of vassals, so Chen Xi never considered it at all.
this matter.
This was a very large deviation, and this deviation led to many errors in Zhou Yu's judgments. When he understood Chen Xi's thinking, Zhou Yu discovered many problems.
"I know what you want to say, it will cause endless harm, right?" Chen Xi saw Zhou Yu wanted to speak, and waved his hand directly.
"Although Confucianism has many problems, the two ideas of respecting the king and rejecting the barbarians and unification are very good. Even if we have eliminated a wave of Confucianism, in fact we are still using some Confucian ideas for education. The six arts and
These ideas are very important to us." Chen Xi said something off-topic, while Zhou Yu was thoughtful.
"Similarly, the next generation educated in this way, even if they are modest in words, but if you tell your conscience, they are still the group of people who 'return to the royal ways, respect the king and reject the barbarians. The hatred of ten generations can still be repaid.'"
." Chen Xi squinted his eyes and looked at Zhou Yu, "Will they forget it? They won't. People educated in this way are just waiting even if they look at salted fish!"