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Chapter 36 Wu Sidao's Test

'Forehead'

Li Yan looked at the excited Wu Sidao and suddenly realized that Old Wu was testing him. He didn't expect that Old Wu was so cunning. Fortunately, he told him his true thoughts.

Li Yan smiled bitterly, shook his head and sat down: "Mr. Wu, what are you doing..."

"Please forgive me, Master Ten. The nine provinces contain billions of lives and this is a huge burden that cannot be shouldered without a broad mind and extraordinary courage. If you try to do it reluctantly, you will harm both the people and the prince. If Master Ten just wants to live a comfortable life enjoying wealth, glory, and beautiful wives and concubines, you can do so now. Why bother getting involved in this mess?" Wu Sidao said with a serious face.

Li Yan also became serious, stood up and bowed solemnly: "Thank you, sir!"

"Excuse me, sir, how can we support the Qing Dynasty?"

Li Yan knew that the Manchus were capable of conquering the world, but when it came to ruling the world, they still had to rely on the great Han scholars who were full of talent and knowledge, so he did not hesitate to ask,
This question is quite broad, Wu Sidao was thinking about it. Li Yan was not in a hurry and waited patiently.

After a long while, Wu Sidao said solemnly: "This question is difficult to answer. It would take ten days and ten nights to finish. But it is also easy to answer. Just six words are enough."

"Which six words?" It was the first time that Li Yan discussed the world with someone, and he was somewhat curious about what Wu Sidao, who was considered the ceiling of wisdom, would say.

Wu Sidao stroked his beard and said, "Know people, use people, and tolerate people!"

"Knowing people, employing people, and tolerating people?"

Li Yan murmured and repeated it. This answer was both unexpected and reasonable.

Six words, three meanings, everything revolves around people.

"Please tell me more!"

"Knowing people is the beginning of doing things. If you can't see clearly what kind of talents and virtues a person has, whether he can do things, and whether he dares to take responsibility, then there is no way to talk about the rest. Fully understanding a person is the first step."

“The second step is to use people, to put them in the right positions according to their talents and virtues, so that they can maximize their abilities.”

Upon hearing this, Li Yan nodded in agreement, and then asked at the right time: "What about Rongren?"

"The last one is very important. Tolerance means that the superiors should have the mind and pattern to tolerate the people who work below them. Life is full of different situations. Not everyone is a saint with both virtue and talent. Most people have shortcomings of one kind or another. Some people are talented but have eccentric personalities; some people are dedicated to serving the people but do not understand human nature, are not good at flattery, and easily anger their superiors; some people can do things but are good at calculating; some people dare to take responsibility but are also greedy for pleasure. It is not easy for superiors to tolerate these people. Only people with a broad mind and great wisdom can do it."

Wu Sidao looked at Li Yan when he got to this point. Seeing that Li Yan was listening intently, he continued, "A leader must know how to recognize people, how to employ people, and how to tolerate people. None of these three can be missing!" "Thank you for your teachings, sir!"

Li Yan bowed with conviction, feeling fortunate that he had won Wu Sidao over to his side early on. If Old Wu had been taken away by the Fourth Brother, it would have been hard to say whether he could have won the throne in the end!
Speaking of real ability, as a student who is still in school, I can never compare with the fourth and eighth princes who have been knowledgeable since childhood. In the early Qing Dynasty, the royal family was very strict in the upbringing of the princes. They often had to get up before dawn to study. In addition to knowledge and culture, they also had to learn archery, horse riding and shooting. It can be said that each of them is talented and well-read.

The fourth and eighth are both outstanding among them.
Although I came from later generations and have more experience, in terms of my true abilities, I am no match for these princes.

In the end, he still had to do more. He volunteered to go to Jiangnan to provide disaster relief and saved countless common people, but he also received generous rewards. Not to mention the wealth, he got the top strategist Wu Sidao, Li Wei, the future governor-general of Liangjiang, Tian Wenjing, who had the people in mind and hated evil, and Qiuyue, his beautiful wife. He also won over Longkodo and Nian Gengyao, pleased Kangxi, won a lot of people's hearts, and changed his impression among the officials.

At least now someone is targeting me, which means that I am no longer the useless prince in people's eyes. How strong a person is can be known by looking at his opponent. No one is attacking me, which only shows that I am a mediocre person who is not envied by others.

A person still has to be determined and go through more hardships. I think it was because the fourth brother realized deeper life wisdom and was tempered in the specific process of doing things that he was able to defeat the eighth brother in the competition and become the final winner!

But the Eighth is different. He has been staying in the capital, unwilling to go to the local areas to understand the real situation, unwilling to deal with the grassroots people, and is out of touch with the masses. He has a lot of bookish airs, thinking that he is smart, but in fact he is just talking on paper, hypocritical, vicious, wolves and scorpions, but he does not have real talent and strategy, and he does not have the calmness and heaviness of the Fourth. His subordinates, the Ninth and Tenth, often stab him in the back, and the Fourteenth also becomes alienated from him at critical moments.

Especially on the night when Kangxi passed on the throne, Cheng Wenyun of the Fengtai camp was his own man. Before leaving, Lao Ba told him to wait for his orders and not to act rashly without orders. He was hoping for the best, fearing that the situation would get out of control.

As a result, the palace was sealed off, with no access between the inside and the outside. Cheng Wenyun waited and waited until Old Thirteen came, but he was killed with a single blow and died with his eyes open. With such a stupid teammate, Cheng Wenyun was unlucky for the rest of his life.

As for the Fourth Prince, he had anticipated this long ago. He knew that it would be difficult to communicate once he entered the palace, so he agreed on an hour in advance. If no order was sent out of the palace by then, he would let Wu Sidao release the Thirteenth Prince privately, take the Thirteenth Prince to the Fengtai camp to seize military power, bring the army back to Beijing to rescue people, and forcibly support himself to ascend the throne. This was the wise move for the country.

The saying "a heavy sword has no edge, great skill is not elaborate" refers to this way of doing things.

"So what does Master Shi plan to do this time?" Wu Sidao looked at Li Yan who had been silent for a long time and asked.

In one sentence, Li Yan woke up from his deep thoughts, raised his head and thought for a while, then said: "Well, if it were me, I would go and ask the Emperor to save people!"

"Master Ten knows that his power is insufficient and wants to borrow the power of the emperor. This is the wisest choice. This old man also means the same thing, but we have to grasp the timing. If we want to make a fuss, we should make it big. If we make it big, we can sweep the Crown Prince and Master Eight into it. Then Master Ten can just sit back and watch the flowers bloom and fall."

Li Yan asked: "Then when is the right time?"

"Your Highness, you are like this," Wu Sidao explained in detail.

Li Yan kept nodding his head.
The two of them discussed the specific operation methods and speculated on the possible development of events. No one in the capital city had expected that the intrusion of a little girl like Alan would cause such a huge storm and have a profound impact on the political landscape of the capital city.

(End of this chapter)