[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-simulated-to-reality-i-once-looked-down-upon-ten":3,"chapter-simulated-to-reality-i-once-looked-down-upon-ten-simulated-to-reality-i-once-looked-down-upon-ten-chapter-220":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Simulated to Reality: I Once Looked Down Upon Ten Thousand Ages?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2347235,4587,"Chapter 220: When One Leaf Falls, All Under Heaven Knows Autumn!","simulated-to-reality-i-once-looked-down-upon-ten-chapter-220",220,"\u003Cp>Because of his childhood experiences!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Ying does not crave power or position, and she understands the people’s suffering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the battlefield, she leads charges, marches ahead of her troops, and truly feels the hardships of her soldiers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, she does not lightly initiate war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In military strategy, she adheres to the principles of seizing the initiative, calculation, and deception.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She calculates the enemy’s strengths and weaknesses, and tricks them into traps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She has mastered military tactics thoroughly, yet adapts flexibly to local conditions, deploys unexpected forces repeatedly, constantly seizes the initiative, and never clings to ancient methods—she has forged her own school.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She is truly a military genius.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her vision is not confined to one nation, but reaches across the four seas, aiming for all under heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A true external conqueror, internal sage—a true sovereign!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Ke’s heart feels he knows Wu Ying’s character intimately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Ke knows this is Lu Chen’s talent: [Recognizing People’s Nature].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This talent is astonishing beyond measure!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seems even more terrifying than before—previously, he could judge a person’s character and conduct with uncanny accuracy using only their life records, as if he had known them for years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seems he can sense what Wu Ying thinks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Ke set down the documents, his gaze fixed on the cities along the Hexi front.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had already begun to ponder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He continued reading; after Wu Ying came.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gong Sun Pingxi!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This man is Qian Yuan’s chancellor, Gong Sun Pingxi—a ruler of the realm, akin to Xie Chunan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Records show!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Wu Ying ascended the throne, Gong Sun Pingxi proposed legal reforms, advocating the combined use of Confucianism and Legalism—emphasizing moral guidance alongside institutional constraints.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This philosophy was especially vital against the backdrop of recent war, when the people were terrified and unstable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To establish authority and advance reform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Records show!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gong Sun Pingxi ordered a three-zhang-long wooden pole erected outside the southern gate of the capital, and posted a notice declaring that anyone who moved it to the northern gate would receive ten taels of gold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such a reward was astronomical to ordinary people; though crowds gathered and murmured, none believed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could such an easy task really earn such a vast reward?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Gong Sun Pingxi raised the reward to fifty taels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under such a generous bounty, a brave man finally appeared—a vagrant carried the pole to the northern gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gong Sun Pingxi immediately fulfilled his promise and gave the vagrant fifty taels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This act caused a sensation among the people!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gong Sun Pingxi proved his integrity and determination through action.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He established credibility in the people’s hearts, and his reforms spread swiftly thereafter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Ke nodded slightly—this man is extraordinary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The booklet also bore red annotations!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Three sheepskins exchanged for a talent who secures the state—the greatest bargain under heaven.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is said Gong Sun Pingxi was once a slave, bought by Wu Ying for three sheepskins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Ke set it aside for now; given the imminent war, he would return to this man later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Ke opened the booklet belonging to Bei Feng!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first was an old acquaintance: Tuoba Shuyi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He skipped his earlier history and read only what happened after his defeat by Lu Chen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tuoba Shuyi lost the war and the Bei Feng succession, and was imprisoned in Honglu Temple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tuoba Shuyi did not give up; he secretly amassed strength, lay dormant for five years, then launched a coup and seized the throne.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After ascending the throne!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tuoba Shuyi revealed extraordinary governing talent—he recruited soldiers, expanded territory, and reclaimed several key northern tribes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten years passed, and Bei Feng gradually regained its former glory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its power was no weaker than in its prime!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Marrying into Da Qing and allying with Han Chu—these are Tuoba Shuyi’s recent state policies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Notably!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over these fifteen years, Bei Feng has launched not a single soldier against the northern border—this restraint clearly reflects Tuoba Shuyi’s deep foresight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the first time, Yu Ke personally reviewed his life and already knew: “Tuoba Shuyi’s intentions are obvious to all.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Southward expansion has always been his lifelong ambition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, he has merely added patience; people may change, but “nature is hard to alter.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Ke turned to the second page!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Yi!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He is currently Bei Feng’s Secretary of the Central Secretariat—a position higher than chancellor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a former advisor to the second prince, Gu Yi demonstrated extraordinary strategic insight even during the Yellow River defeat, first proposing marriage between Bei Feng and Da Qing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the second prince negotiated peace and ascended the throne.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Yi again urged the emperor to execute Tuoba Shuyi, warning he would become a future threat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tuoba Shuyi has the gaze of an eagle and the bearing of a wolf—he has already sharpened his blade. Your Majesty, do not sleep peacefully before your tomb.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If this man lives, our heads will hang from the city gates one day.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regrettably!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The emperor did not heed his advice—he did not wish to be remembered as a brother-slayer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Yi sighed deeply and ultimately chose to resign and return home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The outcome, as expected, was Tuoba Shuyi’s rebellion—a great purge, all his allies beheaded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One detail was recorded!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tuoba Shuyi valued talent and visited Gu Yi three times to invite him out of seclusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Yi feared Tuoba Shuyi’s revenge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He first declined, then feigned illness, and finally prepared to flee—but Tuoba Shuyi caught up with him that very night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one knows what happened that night, only the result:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Yi emerged from seclusion and was appointed chancellor!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under Gu Yi’s guidance, he advocated alliances; Bei Feng achieved remarkable diplomatic success, and the secret alliance among Han, Chu, and Bei Feng was personally orchestrated by him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Yi placed great emphasis on agricultural development, repeatedly urging the court to reclaim wasteland and distribute the newly cultivated land equally among the people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In recent years, he also oversaw irrigation projects, transforming part of the nomadic population into farmers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He compiled population and land records, designing the “Fish Scale Register” to manage the state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The booklet also bore annotations:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Military strategist, state planner—both a genius.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Ke nodded—this man’s talent rivals Gong Sun Pingxi’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next came the booklet of Han and Chu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These two nations were the weakest among the five, and harbored ancient enmity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Da Qing had the weakest military, yet its national strength was not diminished—Jiangnan’s prosperity was the greatest under heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Previously, Qian Yuan was in civil strife, while Han and Chu fought each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bei Feng marched south against Da Qing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qian Yuan ended its internal strife and launched an army against Chu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Han and Chu shared a border; when one falls, the other follows—forcing them to unite against the common enemy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this booklet, Chu’s foremost record is not the emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But rather!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu’s Minister of War, Gong Sun Zhongshu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He is not only a heavyweight in Chu’s political arena but also a renowned Confucian scholar; his Gong Sun Confucianism has rapidly risen in the past thirty years and become a foundational ideology for Chu’s governance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gong Sun Confucianism, rooted in the Five Virtues of the Gentleman, integrates new ideas into a unique scholarly system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Da Chu, gentlemen must not only excel in civil affairs but also possess martial skill and carry swords at their waists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gentlemen may even kill in the marketplace with their swords!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gong Sun Zhongshu himself endured three rises and three falls, weathered countless trials, and ultimately dominated the court.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While the emperor was too young to rule, he acted as regent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Internally, he promoted policies of rest and recuperation to aid national recovery and growth; externally, he actively pushed for alliance with Han.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, Yu Ke already had his answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only need to watch Han.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I already have a strategy to break the enemy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>See one leaf fall, and know the autumn chill across the land!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1321,"2026-06-21T01:33:00.595Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","7f320b582b85297b8b479118cb3dd40f734e28bae3bb83f79a16ce4a41071672","simulated-to-reality-i-once-looked-down-upon-ten-chapter-221","simulated-to-reality-i-once-looked-down-upon-ten-chapter-219",728,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsimulated-to-reality-i-once-looked-down-upon-ten-cover.jpg"]