Ling Zhifeng's playful smile made everyone's tense atmosphere relax a lot. Li Xian asked everyone to sit down and asked all the maids to leave. No outsiders were allowed to stay at the scene.
Li Xian glanced slowly, his eyes calm but full of dominance; at first, everyone didn't dare to look at Li Xian, but gradually they began to look up. Eyes are the windows to the soul; the formal conversation has begun, and it is the communication of eyes.
Over the years, Li Xian had naturally been curious about the origins of Xu Ren, Li Yuanming and others, and had investigated them, but he had not obtained any useful information.
In fact, it is not just the strategists of the Shang State, but all the strategists in the world, whose origins seem to be problematic.
On the surface, they all came from some thatched cottage, village school, or famous teachers who traveled around the world; a few came from small mountain gates, etc.
But when we went to check, we ran into problems. Thatched cottages, village schools, etc., were basically all abandoned; even if they were not abandoned, they would say that the teacher had left. As for the famous teachers who traveled around the world, there was no place to find them.
Only a few mountain gates can be found. Often, people in these mountain gates will admit that those teachers in the thatched cottages and schools, and the wandering famous teachers, are them.
But this is just the surface. If you look deeper, there will be problems - you have trained so many counselors for the world. In the Shang Dynasty alone, there are more than two thousand people serving in various industries and even in national politics; as for other countries, there are even more.
Why don't we set up a fixed sect when training so many talents
This is a question that does not bear scrutiny.
There is another bigger question - all the strategists have existed for more than 100,000 years from ancient times to the present, which seems to be earlier than the Confucianism, military strategists, legalists, etc. that originated in Dongsheng Shenzhou. And since ancient times, there have been very few cases of strategists rebelling. There are too many loyal people compared to Confucianists, military strategists, legalists, etc.
As long as the lord still trusts them, these counselors are loyal enough to block the sword for the person they serve at the last moment. If the lord no longer trusts them, they will finish the work at hand and then... quietly leave, but they rarely betray.
In the past, it was not that no one suspected that there were some unspeakable secrets behind these counselors; however, over the past hundreds of thousands of years, the existence of counselors has withstood the test and has gradually been accepted by everyone. Even Li Yulong did not have any doubts when he first met Xu Ren.
Li Xian once thought that if loyalty was really that great, it would be precious. He was afraid that some beings were playing chess, a game of ten thousand years - when everyone in the world believed in the counselor, they would suddenly rebel collectively.
Li Xian has always been somewhat vigilant. In the most recent prime ministerial election, Li Xian suppressed the military's vote, causing Xu Ren to lose the election, perhaps because of this consideration.
But on the other hand, Li Xian trusted these people, and many matters of Shang State were completely handed over to them.
Xu Ren is in charge of Shang State's military staff department, Ling Zhifeng is responsible for Shang State's national destiny, Li Yuanming has been to important positions many times, Fang Shijing has always been in charge of the operations of the Brilliant Star Group, etc.