The Path of the Sage

Chapter 2024: War of the Ten Kings

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Outside Ning'an City, the corpses of monsters and barbarians were scattered everywhere.

Except for some powerful barbarian corpses that were taken away, the rest of the corpses were spread on the ground, densely packed.

Mechanisms fell from the city walls one after another, picking through the corpses of the barbarians in search of the bodies of barbarian generals or higher-ranking monsters.

The human soldiers were extremely excited, but at the same time they were cautious and alert to avoid a sudden counterattack by the barbarians.

Above the sky, Niu Shan returned to Ning'an City, and Lang Yuan landed back in the camp panting and summoned the kings to discuss matters.

Before everyone gathered, a big barbarian king said, "I wonder if you have noticed that the strength of the human race has grown too fast in recent years, especially the forces below the kings, which have a tendency to suppress our barbarian race. We can no longer use the monster sea tactics to besiege! In my opinion, it is better to launch a "Ten Kings War" against the human race and use the Ten Kings War to decide the ownership of Ning'an City."

"A war of ten kings requires ten people from each side. Most of the people in Ning'an City are great scholars who have recently been promoted. They can't even gather four great scholars of ordinary realm. On the other hand, our barbarians have been gathering strength for many years, and there are more than ten peak barbarian kings. They will never agree to a war of ten kings."

"Then we will have the Ten Kings War between the Barbarian King and the Grand Secretary."

"The Little Ten Kings War? Who will deal with Fang Yun?"

The whole audience was silent.

"The human race is very cunning. If they cannot be forced into a desperate situation, they will never agree to the Ten Kings War."

"How can the human race today compare to the human race in front of the Two Realms Mountain back then? Back then, as long as we challenged them, the human race would dare to fight back. There was even a great scholar who participated in 34 consecutive Ten Kings Wars, winning and losing, and finally died of exhaustion. In order to express respect for him, the demon world suspended the Ten Kings War, which gave the human race a chance to catch their breath."

"Now these humans can only hide in the city and accept the protection of the holy temple. They are far inferior to the humans in the past."

Many barbarian kings continued to attack the human race, completely forgetting that they did not dare to fight Fang Yun in the Little Ten Kings War.

While the kings were discussing matters, many humans also gathered together to discuss military affairs.

Compared with the previous battlefield, there are more beautiful figures on the walls of Ning'an City. Women proficient in medicine keep coming with medicine boxes to provide simple treatment and bandaging for the slightly injured soldiers.

During this quiet moment, many soldiers looked at the women silently. Once they were discovered, they turned their heads away with red faces.

In some camps, these female doctors became a hot topic. Some veterans believed that it was unlucky for women to go to the battlefield and that it was pure nonsense, but some young recruits, on the contrary, believed that they could always help, sparking controversy.

In any case, some soldiers tacitly acknowledged that these female doctors were standing on the same battlefield as themselves and were true comrades and fellow soldiers.

Some high-ranking scholars noticed the change in the human soldiers' attitude towards women and frowned slightly, but then looked at Fang Yun and remained silent.

At this time, almost all people of high literary status gathered around Fang Yun, wanting to learn about the Wumiao Wentai.

After learning that Fang Yun had wanted to build a temple to enshrine all the sages of the military family, the Bing family was very happy, but the other families remained silent.

Among the human race, the military strategists are indeed responsible for the most important tasks of defense and attack, but the other strategists have also made tremendous efforts. Without any one of them, the human race would not have been able to reach where it is today.

What's more, almost all schools of thought are wary of military strategists, because during the war-torn periods such as the Warring States Period, the end of the Qin Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty, and the end of the Han Dynasty, the military strategists were unprecedentedly powerful. However, once the military strategists were in full control, they would inevitably engage in war and aggression, and the power of the military strategists in power would often collapse first, because the military strategists were only suitable for attack and defense, not for governing the country.

In the early Western Han Dynasty, farmers were in power and proposed recuperation, which led to the famous Reign of Wen and Jing. However, a great scholar later concluded that the so-called Reign of Wen and Jing was nothing more than a dividend for the country after the war subsided. As long as the emperor did not act recklessly, the country would enter this natural period after the war, because everyone was tired of war and wanted peace. It was not a real prosperous age.

After the reign of Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing, the shortcomings of the Nong family, that they were ignorant of political affairs and human nature, became apparent. The Nong family valued a leisurely mentality and taking things from nature, but any intelligent creature has desires. The Nong family's way of governing the country, like the Legalists in the Qin Dynasty, is only suitable for implementation in a perfect world without desires.

Unfortunately, whether it is the Shengyuan Continent, the Demon World or the Ten Thousand Worlds, they are all extremely cruel worlds, and countless ethnic groups have been eliminated, not to mention the backward way of governing the country.

The farmers' non-contention is too naive, the Legalists' harshness destroys humanity, the Industrialists treat people as machines, and the Mohists' ideas are castles in the air. People have too many needs, both material and spiritual.

Only Confucianism can meet the dual needs of human beings.

Emperor Wu of Han understood one thing when he was young: what the Han Dynasty needed was a way of governing the country that could move forward in a world full of mud, rot, filth, blood, cruelty, and chaos, rather than a way of governing the country that could only be implemented in an ideal world.

The Han Dynasty needed weapons and armor that could cut through all obstacles.

After determining that the Legalists and the Agriculturalists were unable to lead the Han Dynasty to true prosperity, Emperor Wu of Han searched the court and discovered that Confucianism was not perfect, but the ideas it advocated were most in line with the ideals of the human race, and he was also able to master all the schools of thought.

If the military school is the armor and weapons of the body, then Confucianism is the armor and weapons of the spirit. It can educate and pass on knowledge to future generations, unite people's hearts and strengthen ethnic groups, consolidate imperial power and stabilize classes. It is not perfect, but it is the most suitable sage thought for governing the country.

Confucianism did not choose the Han Dynasty and Emperor Wu. Instead, Emperor Wu of Han chose Confucianism to arm the spirit of the Han Dynasty, chose Legalism to arm the system of the Han Dynasty, and chose Military Science to arm the body of the Han Dynasty.

Emperor Wu of Han adopted Dong Zhongshu's foundation of the great unification saintly way, thoroughly integrated the human race, learned from the Qin Dynasty's experience and lessons, made the imperial power more centralized, and made the political system more stable.

If the Qin Dynasty unified the human race in name, then Emperor Wu of Han achieved unity in spirit and belief. As a result, during the turbulent period of the Ten Kingdoms, the human race's political system was divided but its beliefs were not. The people still gathered around the human power with the Holy Court as its core, maintaining a high degree of spiritual unity.

As for the shortcomings of Confucianism, Emperor Wu of Han abandoned it rather than completely denying it.

However, everyone's vigilance soon dissipated, because now is not the time for the human race to fight among themselves, but a time to unite against the outside world. The stronger the military strategists are now, the better. Once they defeat the demon world, all the families will naturally join forces to suppress the military strategists.

The military strategist continued to increase his strength. Fang Yun, as a Confucian sage, did not hold back and described in detail the details of how he built the Wentai in the Temple of Martial Arts.

The scholars who had not yet established their literary platforms listened very carefully, and some of the military men even showed excitement on their faces. Fang Yun was now speaking the words of heaven, and every word he said personally would be deeply engraved in their hearts and would have a great impact on their future establishment of military men's literary platforms.

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