“The appearance of these heroes signifies that the dividends accumulated in a positive direction since the founding of the Wu Dynasty have been completely squandered by our predecessors. Search: \(?Complete?God?Station) to read quality literature for free.”

The autumn wind rustled, and the grass slope seemed to ripple slightly. The fading sunset brought a gradual chill to the evening, but neither was a problem for the two men. After Ning Yi finished speaking, Qin Shaoqian pondered for a moment, then murmured softly, "Although I don't quite understand, haven't the founding dividends been squandered long ago..."

"After squandering them, they started undermining the foundation of the country..." Ning Yi smiled. "Second Young Master, do you believe in karma?"

"A few women around me do, but me... I don't believe in that stuff." Qin Shaoqian picked up a string of beads he was wearing and shook them. "I remember Liheng doesn't believe in it either, right?"

"I believe that for every action, there is a cause and an effect, but I don't believe in karmic retribution."

"What's the difference?"

"It's a math problem." Ning Yi took a drink, thought for a moment, the distant military camp and courtyard were gradually lighting up, and the traces of people gathered under the twilight sky. After a long while, he continued.

"Every one of us, when we do something, there must be a cause and effect. Of course, that's right. On a large scale, we killed Zhang Jue, making the Jurchens think we were weak. Because they thought we were weak, they started attacking us. You killed someone, and his family wants to avenge him. On a smaller scale, the things Prime Minister Qin did in the past, the words he said to you, the things you saw, led to your current personality. Now that the Jurchens are here, although you know you may not be able to win, you won't choose to run away..."

"Of course not!" Qin Shaoqian smiled.

Ning Yi also smiled, "The calculation of each cause and effect is certainly complex, but every time we do something, even a word or an action, it will lead to other things, other influences. Some of these effects are positive, and some are negative. The problem is that the cause is fixed for each person, but the descent of the effect is random for everyone."

Qin Shaoqian frowned, clearly confused.

Ning Yi then took a branch and drew a few circles on the ground.

"It's like this, let's assume there are ten people in a society. They do good things and bad things. On this day, each person creates a positive one and a negative one, so there are ten of each. But within the society as a whole, the descent of each positive one and negative one is random. It's very possible that someone will get two positive ones and not a single negative one. He's lucky. Another person will have two negative ones descend on his head, and he'll be unlucky. Maybe he's wronged, maybe he's ostracized... And if his foundation isn't strong enough, he might even get a negative ten, and he won't be able to bear it. Those who can't bear it will have to die."

Qin Shaoqian ate something and thought for a while, "Then it's not entirely random, I killed someone, his family will definitely seek revenge on me."

"But the calculation of cause and effect isn't a simple addition and subtraction. Every moment, the causes of countless people are intertwined, which is troublesome." Ning Yi smiled, "You killed this person's father, so he didn't have a father since he was a child. He was bullied and scorned. In order to get revenge, he did a lot of bad things. In order to kill you, he also killed many people to practice... But it's also possible that when he was bullied and scorned, someone pitied him, gave him a good life, and resolved the resentment in his heart... The causes and effects of all people are gathered together, and finally they will descend on everyone's head. Leaving aside natural disasters, the total amount is basically unchanged."

"Sounds interesting..." Qin Shaoqian said, "Then what does it have to do with dividends?"

"The effects we cause from our actions, are of course beneficial and harmful to the country. The country is a huge system, and through the operation of this system, it absorbs these causes and effects every day. Through laws and other means, it tries to distribute these causes and effects evenly on everyone's head."

The nearby bodyguards lit torches and started a bonfire next to them. Ning Yi tapped the small circles on the ground.

"At the beginning of the country's establishment, people are positive and upward, and they have all experienced war, so they know the hard-won peace and are vigilant in times of peace, and they will not easily create those causes that harm the country – that is, they will not do bad things that harm the country. Because this country is also young, all the systems are very sensitive, and they will quickly react to these things. So in the beginning, the country is constantly becoming stronger. But as time goes by, some people will get a lot of causes in the positive direction, become landlords, become large families, become small cliques in the court..."

Ning Yi didn't finish speaking, Qin Shaoqian nodded: "I understand that, next it's time to fall."

"That's right." Ning Yi also nodded, "The emergence of an interest group will first protect its own interests. It will do some small good deeds, create some positive numbers, but it will still continue to expand itself. Think about it, a high-ranking official's family collects land from 100,000 peasant households. Even if he collects less rent, the positive number created by his family is still very small, and for these 100,000 households, at the very least, they don't have much to begin with. Who would think that this country has anything to do with them? They may be simple, but their risk resistance is insufficient. When several negative numbers descend on them, their families will be ruined, and then they will become a machine that continuously creates negative numbers. By analogy, the country will only get worse and worse, which is also determined by human nature."

Ning Yi continued, "In the later stages of the country, there are more and more negative numbers, and fewer and fewer positive numbers that are beneficial to the country. When the country's functions are affected, the digestion of negative numbers cannot be evened out. Sometimes a large pile of negative cause and effect suddenly falls on your head, false charges, or a major fluctuation that you can't withstand. Those who can't withstand it can only die."

"And when the country collapses, a very, very large negative cause has accumulated on the level of the entire country. They are historical debts that must be repaid by someone. How much can one person repay? Even if you encounter the smallest part, you have to fill it with human lives. The negative number created by the people of a country must be filled with hundreds of thousands, millions, or tens of millions of human lives. This is... the cause and effect I understand."

Qin Shaoqian looked at the circles he drew, flickering in the firelight: "Then Liheng still says he doesn't believe in karma?"

"It is believing in cause and effect, but not in karmic retribution." Ning Yi pointed to the circles representing ten people, "The probability of each of these negative values falling on people's heads is equal. You and I are the same, only the ability to bear risks and misfortunes is different. In the Wu Dynasty, the possibility of 100 million people receiving good luck or bad luck is equal, but you only know how much you will actually receive when it comes down, but if you can't bear it, you die... Each of us only has one life to live. If there were 10,000 lives to reincarnate, then we would truly have complete equality, but if there is no reincarnation, then only luck and acceptance of fate remain."

"If there is reincarnation, there will be karmic retribution. You create good causes, and good results will always come back, but I..." Ning Yi paused noticeably when he said this, and then said, "But I don't believe in reincarnation, so I don't believe in karmic retribution."

The wind blew from the sky, and there were night birds flying. The two men said this, and were silent for a long time, and then drank each other's wine. Although Qin Shaoqian was a martial artist, and acted relatively straightforwardly, it didn't mean he didn't have wisdom. Ning Yi's statement, after careful thought, he could still understand, and the result was too heavy.

"Liheng thinks that my Wu Dynasty... has already reached this point?"

"I'm not sure." Ning Yi said, "Maybe it won't collapse, but the appearance of good and bad causes is obviously uneven. The country is not strong enough, so foreign enemies invade. At this time, a large number of human lives will be filled in. There are also some people who are like the country's... immunity, who will take the initiative to meet them and digest a large number of evil results, but if they can't bear it, they will die. These people are the so-called heroes."

Qin Shaoqian's eyes lit up, and he drank a glass of wine: "Then Liheng thinks, how many lives are enough?"

"I know you want to fill it, but it's not enough just to have human lives." Ning Yi patted him on the shoulder, "Don't forget, this country is in debt. The important thing is that before people die, they can pay off their debts. If they can't pay off their debts, everyone will die, and at most it will turn the negative number into zero, and start all over again."

He paused: "So theoretically speaking, the only way to pay off the debt is to have many people alive, and be able to constantly produce this positive number, find a way to generate positive numbers, and constantly offset those negative numbers. One person can't offset it, 10,000 people will come, 100,000 people, a million people will come. When a million people become a whole, they can evenly digest a large number."

"In the past dynasties, the so-called innovators were creating a new system, allowing the people of a dynasty to generate more positive numbers in new ways, but... although a system can evenly digest those large negative numbers, in reality there are always more and less, so some innovators failed, their families were destroyed, and some innovators succeeded, they extended the life of a country, but similarly, their families were also destroyed. Because that is not a cause and effect that one person can bear."

Ning Yi smiled: "So speaking of which, I certainly admire the great heroes in front of me, and I let the storytellers tell about them, but essentially I don't like this kind of thing. A country is like a levee of a thousand miles, and people in it create good and bad causes, like ants, some repair it, and some hollow it out, but many people spend most of their time destroying a country. When Wanyan Wugun swore an oath, Xu Zerun scolded Wanyan Wugun loudly, and it is said that he died generously. He had thousands of acres of fertile land in his hometown, bullied men and dominated women, and even several unjust cases were attributed to him. Many people talk about foreign races attacking, vowing to never live under the same sky, as if this is a great virtue, what is patriotism, in fact it is not. People who do good deeds in normal times, and are not corrupt officials, that is patriotism. If the country had not been brought down by these negative values, and had no strength, how would foreign races invade? How would these heroes need to appear..."

The night was hazy, the stars twinkled in the sky, and the sound fell silent. Qin Shaoqian drank some wine and laughed twice. In the burning bonfire, the view was of the brightly lit courtyard, the brightly lit military camp, the brightly lit Dongping Prefecture, and the fields, villages and waterways far and near. Before long, they changed the subject, talking about the issue of "Clear the Fields and Fortify the Walls," the rhetoric of the public officials, and other abstract things. It wasn't until the two of them got up from the hillside and were about to go down that Ning Yi sighed and patted Qin Shaoqian on the shoulder.

"Second Young Master, I've babbled so much nonsense. As for the war, I know you have a plan in your heart. It's hard to say what will happen to the Wu Dynasty, but people who do practical things sometimes can't be too persistent about everything."

Qin Shaoqian was full of alcohol, and let out a long burp. After a moment, he also looked at Ning Yi: "I know what you mean, Liheng, but if I retreat at this time, what difference is there between me and those guys I look down on? Liheng, I am the son of the Qin family, my father is in the court, so many people are watching him, if I don't meet the attack, how much more attack will my father be subjected to? Liheng, you are erudite, if there is really a correct path, you might as well tell me."

The last thing he said was a bit sarcastic. The Jurchens had already killed to the front at such a speed, and it would be a joke to say that he could win by meeting them. He had 50,000 soldiers under his command, and the other side had 100,000. He had only been in command of the Wu Rui Camp for a year, and the highest official above him was still a civil official. Moreover, Guo Yaoshi had been managing Yanjing for several years, and the court not only did not restrict him, but also used all its strength from the six prefectures of Yanyun to transfuse blood to him. Coupled with the Jurchens' battle record when they destroyed the Liao Dynasty, compared with the strength of the Wu Rui Camp in the past, it would be difficult for even Overlord Xiang Yu, God of War Lu Bu, and White Horse Chen Qingzhi to have a chance of winning in such a battle. But how much choice did he have?

People in the know could also see these things to some extent.

"Things have come to this point, doing anything is wrong. If you don't go, it's no different from those guys. If you go, you'll lose soldiers and generals, giving people a chance to defeat you one by one. My 'Clear the Fields and Fortify the Walls' is the same. It's very likely that more people will be starved to death by me because of this migration than will be killed by the Jurchens, but what should be done must still be done. As for you, Second Young Master, you ask me what's right, then I'll just say two things, if you can do any one of them, you can do whatever you want."

Ning Yi also waved his hand drunkenly: "First! You can kill half of them. Second! You can drag the Jurchen army here for ten days and a half. If you can do any one of these two things, Second Young Master, please die there. If you can't do it, I'll consider you a coward!"

He sighed: "There's Qian Lao in Hangzhou, and now there's Zhou Tong, I respect them very much, but Qian Lao does scholarship, he's an abstract person, Zhou Tong is on his own. Second Young Master, you are a general, endure humiliation and bear heavy burdens, and you have to live. Like I said, the important thing is not human lives, not zero, but you have to create positive numbers to help people pay off their debts."

Qin Shaoqian's expression became serious. He looked at the distant military camp, then at the sky, and didn't speak. Ning Yi's words were probably different from his original plan.

Then, at dawn the next day, the Wu Rui Army moved its camp towards Shouzhang County, preparing to intercept Wanyan Zongwang's Western Route Army.

Ning Yi stood on the grassy slope and watched more than 50,000 people pass by in a mighty manner, not knowing how many people would return.

And at this time, he also faced serious enough problems. That was about the officially launched "Clear the Fields and Fortify the Walls" work.

When the Jurchens invaded the south, some people fled in panic, and some went against the tide, but then they found that they were all going to be affected and swept up by the roaring torrent...

Not long after this conversation between Ning Yi and Qin Shaoqian, the greatest chaos erupted in the heart of the Central Plains with a violent posture that no one could resist.

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