Destiny is ashes

Chapter 573: Bottom-level Perspective
after a while.

An Jing, who was unaware of all this, walked out of the examination room with a heavy face.

"How about it?"

Huo Qing, who also walked out of the examination room with a rather relaxed look on his face, smiled and asked, "Your test paper should be a little more difficult than mine, but that's not a problem, right?"

"I feel terrible." Regardless of Huo Qing's disbelieving look, An Jing spoke the truth: "To be honest, I would rather fight with Foundation Building. This is too difficult. It's hard to make up some logical words."

"Make up some logical words?"

Huo Qing couldn't understand this: "What did you take the exam for? Why do you need to edit it?"

An Jing told Huo Qing about his topic, which immediately caused Huo Qing to be extremely puzzled: "What's so difficult about this? Can't you just criticize Master Qingye for being too radical in his tactics? A pioneering war must be fought steadily, and it's not surprising that it lasts for decades. However, Master Qingye had a gambling agreement with a certain force in Xuanye City at the time. No one knows the content of the agreement, but it's probably quite harsh. So he wanted to achieve success in one battle, ignored his subordinates' opinions and went for it head-on, and ended up going too far and morale collapsed."

"What internal factions and conflicts between the two sides are just to cover up for the real person and the Luofu branch behind him. They are all superficial factors. After all, we are all deployed by the real person. Even if there are some disagreements, and they pretend to obey but secretly disobey, and undermine each other, there is no possibility of a real civil war."

"what?"

When An Jing heard this, he suddenly felt extremely ignorant. He had never encountered such a situation in his previous life: "Radical tactics? Criticizing Qingye Zhenren? Opinions of subordinates? What is this saying?"

He really didn't find these ideas on the spiritual network!

"An Jing, you are a genius. You have no worries about food and clothing in the wilderness. You are also the heir, so you don't know much about the situation here."

Huo Qing patiently explained: "How much profit is behind a war of expansion? People have to fight for decades to have enough food, and Master Qingye wants to finish the war in one go, so what about the companies that invested in him? What about the groups that hope Master Qingye will use the war to experiment with new magic tools, new elixirs and talismans? What about the Dongtian people who want to gradually occupy new territories through war, become new masters, new leaders, and split off new branches?"

"Even our original gang had to clear out a lot of old munitions because of the pioneering war! Those old sword cases and bullets, if we don't take this opportunity to use them up, they will all be scrapped in the future, which is simply a sin."

"If he had the support of a True Lord, then he could naturally unite everyone. But he is only a True Lord, and he doesn't have any great cause. He wants to finish the war in a few years, but we don't have any military merits, no subsidies, no time to occupy much land for development, and even no reputation. Even those who support him the most don't get much benefit. How can everyone not lose morale?"

This call made An Jing silent.

He suddenly discovered that the war in his previous life and the war in Huaixu and Tianyuan Realm seemed to be completely different: he fought to protect his homeland, to restore peace to the world, and to unify it in the end... But here, the war was not for a lofty goal, but the entanglement of countless interests, the compromise of various forces, and the final will of a behemoth, rather than a torrent of thoughts.

Of course he is not wrong.

However, the seemingly compromised thinking of the people in the Tianyuan Realm is not wrong.

We cannot force these people who don't even have a "life" to fight with all their might for a war that is not about protecting their homeland but is clearly of no benefit.

When you tell them grand narratives, they won't feel any passion or excitement, just calmness.

I have a perspective that is too high, and I always want to solve the "problem" directly... But before the problem, there are more "causes" that cause the "problem". "...I still need to think more and understand more."

An Jing let out a long sigh.

He had had similar thoughts in the past, but it was not until now, after solving Huaixu's urgent survival problem, that An Jing had the spare time to calmly think about the differences and problems in this regard.

While An Jing was silent, Huo Qing pondered the question and gave the final answer: "As for the following discussion topic, it is also simple. Orders are good, but they also need people to execute them. Ignoring the interests and needs of everyone, just blindly pursuing efficiency and forcing everyone to obey your will will only make you suffer in the end."

"The same is true for organization, formations and refining. If you add inappropriate and excessive demands to a formation, it will be overloaded and stop working. If you impose too powerful restrictions on a magic weapon, it will become scrapped after a few operations. Rational planning should be carried out slowly, taking care of everyone's needs, so that everyone has a goal and then unites. This is the correct way to operate."

In the end, Huo Qing came up with the correct answer that An Jing also agreed with, but the process was a little too tortuous.

After listening to this, An Jing was silent for a long time, and then he said with emotion: "I have never seen these on the spiritual network."

Huo Qing shook his head and said, "Hey, there is no such thing on the spiritual internet. What we spread among the people are rumors that are closer to the truth. If such rumors are spread on the Internet, they will be banned and invited to have tea by the Sky Monitoring Bureau."

"But the wilderness and the safe zone had a very bad impression of Master Qingye. He tricked a group of people from the wilderness and the safe zone into opening up new territory, but he neither provided them with a stable settlement nor paid them the due compensation immediately. He just made big promises like 'you'll get good rewards if you conquer a certain place', and finally used them as cannon fodder. It has become very difficult for Xuanye City to carry out new development activities later on, and no one believes him anymore."

"But recently, everyone has gradually forgotten about this matter, so Xuan Ye City is planning to restart it. Some time ago, many policies and cultivation encouragements, including the opening of the right to free development of the ancient immortal ruins, all proved that a new round of development wars is about to come."

At this point, Huo Qing gave a fairly pertinent evaluation: "An Jing, you are still too focused on your practice - but maybe your ideas just happen to cater to those people above? Anyway, my folk perspective can't get high scores, because the above thinks it's too vulgar."

In Huo Qing's opinion, An Jing's answer was absolutely correct. He focused on cultivation and had a very high perspective. Maybe he would get a high score because of this?

Anyway, An Jing didn’t get a high score, it must be No. 3 Middle School’s fault!

However, An Jing understood that his understanding of the Tianyuan Realm was still too superficial, and he was afraid that he would not get a good result in this exam.

"Forget it, let's go have some tea."

Thinking of this, An Jing couldn't help but let out a long sigh - he still had a long way to go in his development in the Tianyuan Realm, and he still needed to learn more about the situation in the local world in order to better develop and grow in this world.

This thought continued until Nianquan sneaked over and whispered to the two of them in a private room of a roadside tea shop with great excitement: "The internal results are out! An Jing, you are the first in this written test!"

"Principal He also told me that all the directors are very optimistic about you. As long as your martial arts test results are a little more normal, you will definitely be successful!"

"Ha." Huo Qing laughed and cheered, "Sure enough, An Jing is number one!"

As for An Jing: “?”

(End of this chapter)