Zhuge Liang bowed and thanked Xu Shu, "More Brother Yuanzhi's heartfelt guidance..."

"It's a bit too much to say this, let's talk to each other..." Xu Shu waved his hand and said, "This also means the lord..."

"The Lord's Intention?" Zhuge Liang asked.

Xu Shu glanced at Zhuge Liang, "Then why do you think your lord asked you to come to Sichuan and Shu instead of going to other places? Hedong, or the north?"

Zhuge Liang couldn't answer.

"I was a little puzzled when my lord asked me to come to Sichuan before... Later I realized that my lord was taking great pains..." Xu Shu turned his head and looked at Zhuge Liang, "The lord asked you to come, and most of the time I wanted me to share the gains from these years with you... There are many similarities between you and me..."

"In the past few years, I think the biggest gains are the days when I sat down at Lushan, and the one who remembered the most was the pain of becoming a fugitive, arrested by the government, hiding from all over the world... "Xu Shu said, then closed his eyes slightly, as if recalling the scene of that year, "The lord's road is different from the predecessors, and it is also different from the Confucian scholars today... In recent years, the great Han Dynasty and the court struggles, I had been indignant before, thinking that it was the traitor who caused rebellion and the scorpion to do evil, which made people suffer and the people suffer...

『But now, I feel that it is not that there is a traitor first, but that there is a national disaster...』 Xu Shu opened his eyes, and a little light appeared in his eyes, 『But this traitor, there is always, everyone is there!』

Zhuge Liang was silent for a long time before nodding slowly, "Brother Yuanzhi said very much."

In history, Zhuge Liang was very moved by Xu Shu's fate, believing that Xu Shu was the magistrate of a small county town, which was covered with the dust. However, now, Xu Shu, who had a meal with the General of the Cavalry, had obviously sharpened his own sharp blade, and naturally opened up some gap with Zhuge Liang, who had just begun to polish.

The change in thinking that Xu Shu mentioned is actually like a child who is not aware of the world, and he thinks that good people are good people and bad people are bad people. When he grows up, he realizes that good people may not be good people, and bad people may not be bad people. There is no clear distinction between treacherous ministers and loyal ministers, either black or white.

Whether it was the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, or the ups and downs of the Han Dynasty for three or four hundred years, it seemed that when the dynasty was about to be crumbling, traitors caused trouble to the country, and then these people became the targets of being scolded. It seemed that without these traitors, the dynasty could last and the people could be stable, but is that true?

Just like Dong Zhuo.

Even without Dong Zhuo, wouldn’t it be that the great man would not be in chaos?

"Therefore, the lord said, "The country is rich and the people are strong." Do you know the meaning of it?"

Zhuge Liang pondered, then smiled bitterly, "The lord is very conspiring, but Liang is really hard to see the whole leopard."

『People think that "the country is rich and the people are strong" is just a word, but they don't know the mystery...』 Xu Shu said slowly, 『It is now that I gradually understand...』

"There are many ignorances." Xu Shu said, "The writings of sages are also to eliminate these ignorances. Nowadays, people only care about one person, one family, one country, and nothing else, are selfish desires. The laws of sages include those who are pure and have few desires, those who are strict and harsh, those who seek internally, and those who are also seek external things, but... hehe...

"It's not as straightforward and thorough as the lord's four words!"

Xu Shu said it firmly,

"In this world, all people have selfish desires. If their selfish desires are inflated, the person is blinded and cannot see what he does." Xu Shu raised his head, as if he was recalling something, "It was like when I was chivalrous, and I thought that revenge was the right way. What was the result? I was happy, but I... my mother was implicated... "

"Preserve the laws of nature and destroy human desires..." Xu Shu laughed twice, "It's not possible. Desire can be good or bad. If no one has any desire, can he still call people? It's better to be a walking corpse! Just as the academy just now, if I hadn't agreed to let those tribes enroll together, would these tribes be willing to cooperate with us in repairing the road and opening up business paths?"

"Why is this like this in this world, why is it like this?" Xu Shu continued, "The four words given by the lord are the answer. If there is no country rich, how can the people become strong? Or if there is no country strong, how can the people become rich? But what if it is the opposite?"

Zhuge Liang's heart was thrilled, "Now the great man is... the people are strong, but the country is not rich?"
Chapter completed!