Chapter 1224: Like-minded

"So the ancestor now has a choice, is it the Taiping Dao?" Zhuge Liang was a smart person. Regarding Su Fan's purpose for coming to the Jiuzhou this time, just through a short exchange, he guessed some of it.

"Not bad! I won't hide it from you. This time coming to this place is also because I calculated that your Zhuge family has many capable people, especially you, who are a talent of the ages."

"If cultivated well, I'm afraid you won't be inferior to Li Si or Lu Buwei of the Great Qin."

Su Fan's praise made Zhuge Liang suddenly show a rare bit of embarrassment.

"Ancestor, you praise me too highly. How could Liang dare to be mentioned in the same breath as those two Prime Ministers?"

Although Zhuge Liang was also very confident and even had a heart of pride, he would not easily look down on others. But for those two Prime Ministers of the Great Qin, Zhuge Liang really did not have the thought of comparing himself to them at this moment.

The more he understood the history of the Great Qin, the more he understood how powerful the Great Qin was.

Indeed, that Human Emperor Ying Zheng of the ages was indeed extraordinary, an absolute model of an emperor, bringing the Great Qin to a terrifying height.

However, the Great Qin could develop to such a height not just by relying on this emperor. Those ministers, especially the two generations of Prime Ministers, also made great contributions.

Lu Buwei, this sage of the business world, the status of merchants today, in fact, also owed much to this merchant sage.

In this world, the Merchant Sage was no longer Fan Li, but this Prime Minister of the Great Qin. He, with his own strength, raised the status of merchants to a very high level.

Although merchants did not have a unique cultivation path, the ability of merchants could facilitate the communication of an empire, especially the development of various industries, which could not be separated from the promotion of merchants.

The Great Qin governed the country with the Legalist school, but the prosperity of the entire country's industries was also inseparable from merchants.

Even in the current Liu Han, which exclusively respects Confucianism, commerce was still very prosperous, and even more so.

Merchants could not be officials, that was also just a formality, and Confucian merchants also had a not low status in the Liu Han.

As for the other Legalist giant, Li Si, he was also very respected by Zhuge Liang.

Although Zhuge Liang studied Confucianism, he clearly knew that Confucianism governing the country had no effect at all. Even the Liu Han today used Confucianism, but in reality, it was still external Confucianism and internal Legalism.

The greatest advantage of Confucianism was gathering the Hundred Schools and absorbing other Hundred Schools of Thought.

Of course, for the Legalist school, Zhuge Liang also had a bad view, that was the policy of weakening the people, which in his view was not a good choice.

Zhuge Liang felt that whether a country was powerful or not was not just the army. Indeed, the Great Qin was powerful and unified the world, becoming the generation-defying dynasty of the Jiuzhou.

The Great Qin's army could even fight with gods.

However, in Zhuge Liang's view, the Great Qin still did not exert all its power. Indeed, the Great Qin's army reached hundreds of millions.

But so what? The entire Great Qin had a population of hundreds of billions. This power, the Great Qin only used one-thousandth, or even one-ten-thousandth.

The policy of weakening the people, hundreds of millions of people, did not contribute the power they should have. Small people, although small, once gathered together, could also exert terrifying power.

An empire, the army was one aspect. If the Great Qin back then had everyone like a dragon, then the Great Qin's power would be even more terrifying.

But it was a pity that the Legalist school focused on weakening the people.

Of course, Zhuge Liang also guessed the worry of the Legalist school. Once the bottom-level people were all like dragons, it would not be easy to manage.

Confucianism confuses the law with literature, and chivalry violates the ban with martial arts. Possessing martial power made it difficult to manage, and even rebelling would be easier.

Just like cultivators, what they yearn for is always freedom, not wanting to be bound, and the focus of the Legalist school is a binding, a rule.

It was just that in Zhuge Liang's view, this could be tried.

The Great Qin's power back then, even if the folk were strong, was definitely not the opponent of the Great Qin's army, and the folk and the imperial court were not necessarily opposed.

As long as they were guided well, this power would actually become the help of the imperial court.

Of course, Zhuge Liang was not a person of the Great Qin, and he had no comments on the Great Qin's policies, not to mention that the Great Qin was no longer there.

But his philosophy paid more attention to the bottom-level people, and he believed in the power of those common people, which could not be underestimated.

It was just that his thoughts were a bit alternative. After all, in this transcendent world, the view that water can carry a boat and can also overturn it had no advantage.

Bottom-level people, to those high-level people, were cannon fodder that could be harvested at will. No one had ever valued them.

Even the Great Qin was like this. The Great Qin only guaranteed that those people could live.

By the time of the Liu Han, today even guaranteeing their survival could not be guaranteed.

The times were all like this, and Zhuge Liang's thoughts were out of place.

But he was appreciated by Su Fan, because he believed in the power of the people, not to mention that in the future, the Jiuzhou would have no transcendent spiritual energy, and what remained would be mortals, and the power of mortals, with the help of science, could also kill gods.

Indeed, nuclear weapons might only threaten Nascent Soul cultivators, but future science could invent more powerful weapons, what particle cannons, what star-destroying cannons.

These, as long as the human race kept researching, would have enough opportunities.

Zhuge Liang's thoughts were very suitable for the Taiping Dao.

So for the Taiping Dao proposed by Su Fan, Zhuge Liang was naturally somewhat interested.

It was just that Su Fan praised him as comparable to Li Si and Lu Buwei, and he could not bear it yet.

"What Lu Buwei and Li Si could do, I believe you can do too."

Giving Wuhou a chance to exert his ability, Su Fan believed that the latter would definitely not be inferior to Lu Buwei and the others in the future.

Indeed, Lu Buwei and Li Si were very important to the Great Qin and indeed exerted decisive power.

But Zhuge Liang was definitely not inferior.

And the key was that Zhuge Liang's concept was close to his, close to the Taiping Dao, so this was a like-minded person.

Although Zhang Liao and the others were not weak in ability and were also military generals, in reality, for the Taiping Dao, the improvement was not very large.

This kind of military general, the Taiping Dao would not lack in the future, even if Zhang Liao entered the Martial Temple in history.

But once the Taiping Dao established an army like the modern era of later generations, the effect of Zhang Liao and the others in the army would be greatly reduced.

After all, the emergence of the staff system could allow the army to maximize its strength. Even if they encountered a military god in the future, in reality, as long as they didn't make mistakes on their side, the army would almost be invincible.

The battles of later generations were not about military strategy, but entirely about logistics.

Of course, military strategy was definitely useful, but wanting to be like the ancient times, it was almost impossible.

The Taiping Dao's army, perhaps three cobblers could not compare to one Zhuge Liang, then come thirty, three hundred of these. ===== CHAPTER 1225 =====