Ma Yiwei took Zhou Shu and Xie Chu to a village that was neither prosperous nor simple.
I just looked at it from a distance and did not enter it. Some villages are very exclusive. After the stranger comes, they will go through numerous audits and various investigations. It is also a trouble for Ma Yiwei. For Zhou Shu and Xie Chu, it is also a problem. There is no such need.
In the pavilion, Xie Chu took out the teapot from the spatial artifact and made a pot of good tea. The fragrance of the tea did not overflow. Probably the world in his heart was too vast. Even if the fragrance of tea overflowed, I couldn't feel it.
Zhou Shu asked curiously: "What kind of village is this village? It should be essentially different from the previous villages."
Ma Yiwei said: "There is indeed an essential difference. The people in this village, more than three generations, are actually bandits. It has only been completely normalized in the past 100 years. There have also been more powerful practitioners in this village, but their Compared with the two of you, the realm cultivation base is far from each other."
"The people in this village are extraordinarily united. When choosing a leader, they will choose the kind of people who are both civil and military. Of course, the people in this village are also extraordinarily powerful. Within a radius of five hundred miles, they are both black and white. The business is almost monopolized by the people in this village."
"Even the local magistrate, the county magistrate, when meeting the owner of this village, he needs to be polite when he speaks."
"They are about to become a single individual. The laws of the empire may be insignificant to the people in this village. Even soon, they will have the ability to intervene in the government affairs of a state and a county."
"What do you think of such a village?"
This question was asked Zhou Shu once.
As a leader, I like to reuse capable people, but I don't want my people to have a more outstanding existence.
In fact, the kind of top talents can also appear, but if the top talents will not be loyal to a certain belief, allegiance to the monarch, but just want to unilaterally become bigger and stronger, this kind of people is also intolerable by the monarch. .
Compared with the dilapidated and scribbled village of the former, those who are actually masters hate this kind of hard-powered and disobedient village even more.
The things involved here are very complicated.
If the people here are selected for the best, then the original law of order will be messed up, and things like the law of order can never be like spider webs. Flies and mosquitoes can live in the web, and the slightly more fierce crows and sparrows. The net can't live.
This is also incorrect.
But if you don’t choose the best, let such people continue to develop, and sooner or later they will become a thorny trouble, which will affect the imperial power in the hands of the monarch, although from an objective point of view, the people in this village, no matter how they develop , Will definitely not affect Zhou Tian's imperial power.
However, there are still many people like this kind of village and this kind of people in this world, and no matter how you deal with it, there are some contradictions.
Even life is actually contradictory.
There is a saying that rabbits do not eat grass at the edge of the nest, and there is also a strategy of getting the moon near the water.
Zhou Shu asked: "I don't know the answer to this question. Maybe my elder brother will give you an accurate answer. But before that, I want to know that if you are a superior ruler, you will be like this.
How to face such a problem. "
Ma Yiwei has never imagined that one day he will become a superior ruler. He also knows that it is not like that. As a young man, Ma Yiwei is a very sober young man. Daydreaming is impossible in Ma Yiwei. occurring.
He just wants to be the best he can be, and he hasn't thought about who he wants to defeat, he just wants to defeat himself who was once weak.
Ma Yiwei smiled and said: "Actually, I don't know how to deal with it, but I will lead them in the right direction and let them have their own beliefs. This is just a more ideal way of saying. A man will only become his own emperor, and he will never be willing to humbly face the superior ruler."
Zhou Shu's heart was still a little touched.
A war can still be won if the strategy is right.
But if it is a dispute between people's hearts, it is impossible to resolve the so-called disputes of people's hearts regardless of the outcome of life or death.
Zhou Shu knowingly smiled and said: "The troubled times are heavy, if I encounter some too difficult things at this time, I can only choose the overall situation, but the troubled times are also a world where ideals fly. I need an idealist like you to become an officialdom. A member of the above."
"Some things, in my hands, may become a bad thing, but in your hands, it may become a good thing that people talk about."
Ma Yiwei said: "But in the future, I may also become a corrupt official. In a certain position, can I stick to my heart? Sometimes I can’t help it. I don’t know how you think about it. ?"
Zhou Shu knowingly smiled and said: "Then it will be a future thing after all. At least you are a very pure person, and I am also a very pure person. Together, you and I govern the city of Huaiyin, which will reduce this risk. To the lowest."
"If one day, you become a bad person, I will do business in business. In the face of righteousness, personal affairs can only be put aside. People always have to make some painful choices before they can become better, just like You walked out of your village."
Ma Yiwei thought about this carefully, and it seemed that there was nothing wrong with what he said.
"It seems like that, if I choose or not, I will go with the flow."
Zhou Shu smiled and said, "The officialdom of Huaiyin City welcomes you. Maybe the future Thai Palace will also need you."
For the time being, there are members of the blood family in the Thai palace who dominate government affairs, and there is no need for young people like Ma Yiwei. However, after a few years, Ma Yiwei may also become an important minister in the Thai palace. Maybe not, life is impermanent, what matters It's hard to say.
Ma Yiwei smiled and said: "I know that you two microservices privately visited, looking for talents, and found Wang Cheng. Wang Cheng recommended me. I should also recommend a good candidate to you."
Zhou Shu was joyful and asked, "Where is that person and whether he is within the scope of Huaiyin City."
Ma Yiwei said: "That person is a wanderer, not from the city of Huaiyin. He has a rather weird style. Whether he can make sense depends on your ability."
Weird people, Zhou Shu is not afraid at all, members of the blood clan are weird enough.
Ma Yiwei continued: "His name is Gu
Xing is about the same age as me, and his realm cultivation is not weak, he has reached the realm of Yuanshi. "
"I'm a miscellaneous scholar. I can't talk about being arrogant, but it's hard to follow the path. He has a brilliant literary style, but he rarely writes some poems."
"In the recent period of time, it should be in the city of Huaiyin. The place where it appeared may be in the brothel and waiting for the place of wind and moon."
Zhou Shuyan said: "Listening to you, this seems to be a person who is not afraid of meat and vegetables."
Ma Yiwei chuckled and said, "He has always been a person who is not afraid of meat and vegetables."
Xie Chu said: "This relationship is good, and we also like dealing with people who are not afraid of meat."
Zhou Shu said, "If Murong Yan and Senior Sister Feng Wei knew that we had gone to the brothel, would they have changed our character in their hearts?"
Xie Chu smiled and said: "We are upright people, even if we go to the brothel, the starting point is upright."
Zhou Shu smiled helplessly: "This is really shameless."
"But so, our starting point is actually upright."
Ma Yiwei did not interrupt, and stood quietly aside.
Zhou Shuyan said: "If you don't dislike it, now I will take you back to Huaiyin City. I have arranged a mansion for you. When you go there, you can talk to Wang Cheng, take a walk, talk about the past, and the girl. ."
Ma Yiwei said: "Yes."
The three people left the village.
While on the road, Zhou Shu always thought in his heart, if his elder brother met someone like Wang Cheng and Ma Yiwei, would he make such a decision
In fact, Zhou Shu didn’t know whether the decision he made was right or wrong, because politics is a very complicated matter. The choices he made were somewhat idealistic. In troubled times, he needed ideals. There is no need for ideals, this is also a more contradictory place.
When he was bored, Zhou Shu remembered all the bits and pieces he had with his eldest brother, his eldest brother's life, and his political skills.
But some things are destined to be unanswered just by thinking. Only when you take that step will you become your true self.
Zhou Tian told Zhou Shu more than once that he can be used as a role model, but he cannot be regarded as a necessary goal.
The dragon becomes a dragon after all, and the tiger becomes a tiger after all. The essence of some things is actually destined from the beginning.
Many things cannot be forced.
This time, Zhou Shu didn't know whether he had made a mistake or did some good deeds. It will take time to find out.
But fortunately, at least he personally made a gesture of recruiting talents. Invisibly, Zhou Shu and Xie Chu's psychology have grown a lot.
When people grow up, they don't have too much vigor and vigor, but more careful calculation and gentleness, as well as cautiously taking every step to protect the people behind them.
There will never be a chance to happen to Zhou Shu and Xie Chu again.
Some people's past is a long way to go, and struggles are difficult. Some people's past is pale and weak and easy to go, but no matter what the past is, it is just the past, and there is no need to miss it.
At a certain stage, it is necessary to take a brand new attitude and face brand new things.
(End of this chapter)