Gu Yong couldn't help but feel a little angry. Gu Yong was also an arrogant person. He thought that even if his views were not superb, they were by no means ordinary. Chen Yuan actually said that he was wrong, and Gu Yong had to get to the bottom of it.
Asked the question.
"So, I would like to hear my junior brother's opinion."
It must be a high opinion. If he really wanted to do something, Chen Yuan might still lose to Gu Yong. But when it comes to talking about the world, Chen Yuan considers himself second and no one dares to consider himself first.
"What senior brother just said is actually very sublime, far beyond ordinary people."
Chen Yuan first praised Gu Yong. No matter how he said it, he was also his senior brother, so he still had to give him some face. Otherwise, he would be criticized to pieces, which would not be friendly at all.
When Gu Yong heard Chen Yuan give him a thumbs up, his face showed no expression and remained calm.
Chen Yuan didn't take it seriously and continued: "Although what senior brother said is exquisite, there are still some imperfections."
Gu Yonggong raised his hand and said, "Junior brother, please tell me in detail. Yong is listening attentively."
Chen Yuan smiled, he knew that Gu Yong must be a little unhappy, but he convinced you after a while.
Chen Yuan spoke directly: "Senior brother just now said that the world will be safe, and I want to say that the world's chaos has just begun. What do you think, senior brother?"
Gu Yong shook his head: "A huge rebellion like the Yellow Turban Rebellion is about to be put down. Is there any situation more chaotic than the Yellow Turban Rebellion?"
Chen Yuan nodded: "There are no roosters crowing for thousands of miles, and bones are exposed in the wild. Senior brother, do you think this is enough chaos?"
Gu Yong was shocked: "How is that possible?"
Chen Yuan smiled lightly: "How is it impossible?"
"In the imperial court, there are eunuchs and foreign relatives who are fighting each other for exclusive power, and there are powerful people below who have ulterior motives. What's more, some are already willing to replace them. The living people have almost no place to stand. Instead of dying, they are dying. Waiting for death, the country will die.
But, since they already have nothing, they are not afraid of losing anything. The Yellow Turban Rebellion is just the beginning, and a greater catastrophe is about to come."
Gu Yong was silent when he heard this.
As a member of the Gu family, one of the four powerful men in Wu County, Gu Yong naturally knew what those in the family were doing. They were naturally greedy for land and endlessly annexed land. Those people were either reduced to domestic slaves or starved to death. In this way
This will create a situation.
A large number of homesteaders, that is, ordinary people, have become domestic slaves of the powerful, which has caused the power of the powerful to expand rapidly. This is why the powerful in this era can arm thousands of soldiers without moving.
Because they are not short of food or people.
In this way, the powerful landowners are strong, but the country's strength is weakening.
Because there are fewer and fewer people paying taxes, powerful landlords are stealing the power of the country to strengthen their own families.
Although Gu Yong was aware of this situation, as a member of the powerful landowners, Gu Yong was naturally unable to object, and he was powerless to object. He could only do his best to make the lives of the people who had become domestic slaves better.
However, Gu Yong does not think this is a bad thing: "Although what my junior brother said is to the point, it is exaggerated. Perhaps becoming a domestic slave of a powerful landowner is also a good choice."
Chen Yuan laughed: "Brother, do you believe this? What is a domestic slave? It's just an item of the family. You don't need to pay for your life if you kill it at will. At most, it's just some money. If it's not a last resort,
Who wants to be a slave!"
Gu Yong couldn't help but blush when Chen Yuan said that.
Chen Yuan continued: "If this problem is not solved, the world will never be truly stable. Even if the struggles of these poor people are temporarily suppressed by you, you cannot suppress them forever. There is a saying, where can there be any
Where there is oppression, there is resistance. Sometimes it is not that there is no resistance, but that the level of oppression is not enough. The peasant uprising in the late Qin Dynasty, the Green Forest Red Eyebrow Uprising, and today's Yellow Turban Rebellion, these living examples all illustrate this point."
Gu Yong was speechless by Chen Yuan, so he blurted out in desperation: "This has been the case for hundreds of years. As long as a wise king and wise ministers are alive, a prosperous age can be created. This is not the case for the Han Dynasty and Guangwu. How can we explain this?"
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Chen Yuan shook his head: "The prosperous age mentioned by senior brother has something to do with the people of the world. Those who should have enough to eat are still not full, and those who should be doing hard labor are still doing hard work. It is not less in the prosperous age."
Gu Yong was silent.
After a long time, Gu Yong sighed: "Junior brother, do you have a solution?"
After all, Gu Yong was still an ambitious young man. Although he was born in the Gu family of Wu County, he had a deep compassion for the poor people in his heart because he was deeply influenced by Cai Yong.
Chen Yuan nodded: "I looked through the history books and thought about it for thousands of years, and I finally realized the root cause of these problems, which is internal friction."
"Internal friction."
"Yes, internal strife, not to mention the time when the emperor and the ministers are ignorant, all their actions are internally draining the power of the entire country. Even the wise emperor and the virtuous ministers, in the early days, in order to dominate the world and realize their ideals and ambitions, they were still able to conquer the country.
It is far away, so that the entire country's power can be directed in one place, and the internal friction is not serious."
"However, once they achieve their own goals, they lose their outward motivation and inevitably suffer from internal friction.
"Of course, there are many reasons for losing motivation, including the reason for fulfilling their own ambitions and the reason for not being able to obtain more benefits from the outside."
"Therefore, the only way to solve the internal friction is to move outward, to continue to move outward, and to allow all people to benefit. In this way, we can maintain the outward momentum and make the entire country burst with vitality, so as not to
Death is in internal friction.”
Gu Yong was immediately silenced by Chen Yuan's words, and his mind was buzzing.
This theory has never been proposed before, so it will naturally have a huge impact on Gu Yong.
In fact, Chen Yuan did not create this set of things by himself. Countries in later generations were very familiar with it.
Once an irreconcilable conflict occurs within a country, it immediately starts a foreign war. In this way, the country's main conflict immediately becomes a conflict with other countries, and domestic conflicts can be temporarily suppressed or even transferred.
This was true in both World War I and World War II.
Chen Yuan just copied the gourd and copied things that were used by later countries.
In fact, this is indeed the case. Throughout the history of China, when expanding outward, the entire country and nation showed extremely strong vitality and activity. However, once it stopped expanding outward, the country's strength quickly began to decline.
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Not to mention anything else, let’s just say that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was divided into three countries, Wei, Shu and Wu.
Regardless of the three points in the world, it still maintains strong attack power against the surrounding alien races, constantly expanding outwards, and maintaining its own vitality.
When the Wei State defeated Wuhuan, the Shu State defeated the Southern Barbarians, and the Wu State attacked South Vietnam, they were all like beating children.
I have to say it's awesome.
Anyway, he is much more awesome than Sima Jin behind him.