xymnovel Chapter 16 The North Needs a Balance
Chapter 16 The North Needs a Balance
"Ding! A powerful force from an imperial star has been detected catching up with the host. Detection in progress!"
Just as Su Ye was inspecting his expeditionary army, a system notification suddenly rang in his ears.
"What's wrong with the system?"
"Ding! Originally, due to the host's starting point and the four celestial spirits summoned, the host's momentum was among the best of all the imperial stars on the Tianwu Continent today."
"Now the system has detected that the imperial star's fortune on the northern grasslands is beginning to rise sharply, so..."
Before the system could finish explaining, Su Ye already understood.
The entire grassland is now affected by the disaster, suffering heavy losses.
Since that imperial star in the northern grasslands could become an imperial star, it must have gathered a large number of talented people around it.
When the Great Plains are in dire straits, if a powerful leader were to emerge and raise his voice, many tribes would naturally be willing to submit.
"So, if I don't do something, I'll be facing a unified grassland led by a powerful ruler in the future?"
Just thinking about that scene made Su Ye's scalp tingle.
"Ding! Yes, it has been detected that the imperial star in the north has deviated from its original trajectory and is rising rapidly earlier than originally planned. This is probably due to the few sets of data that the system lost."
The system notification sounded, leaving Su Ye speechless.
"System, summon me! I need balance!"
At this moment, Su Ye preferred the balance to come even more fiercely than any protagonist in a summoning story.
Ideally, we could include characters like Temujin and Nurhaci in a balanced way.
For the Central Plains, the most terrifying thing was a unified grassland.
If the grasslands were to split into multiple tribes, their attitude towards other tribes would be no different from their attitude towards the Central Plains.
They are all different races, all beings that need to be exterminated. The only reason they can cooperate is because they have a common goal.
Moreover, the emperor who emerged from the alien race could not only act as a troublemaker on the grasslands but also challenge that imperial star.
It can also separate and balance out those random characters who wander onto the grassland.
It's important to understand that balance is randomly distributed; if there were only one imperial star on the grassland...
The thought of facing a unified grassland in the future is daunting, especially since this powerful ruler has gathered not only local talents but also all the foreign figures who have been brought to the grassland.
Su Ye was completely numb.
Wu Qi was a military strategist, politician, and reformer in the early Warring States period of China, and one of the representative figures of the military school.
Wu Qi studied Confucianism under Zeng Shen in his early years, but later abandoned Confucianism to study military strategy.
He commanded the Wei army to repeatedly defeat the Qin state, occupy the Hexi region, and became the first governor of Xihe Commandery. At the same time, he reformed the military system, created the Wei Wuzu (Wei elite infantry), and "fought seventy-six major battles with the feudal lords, winning sixty-four of them."
Later, due to Wei Wuhou's suspicion, he switched his allegiance to the State of Chu. He was initially appointed as the governor of Wan, and a year later, he was appointed as the prime minister by King Dao of Chu, where he carried out reforms to crack down on and restrict the power of the old aristocracy and strengthen the army.
Through sweeping reforms, the state of Chu was successfully strengthened in a short period of time, leading to a powerful state where it "pacified the Baiyue in the south, annexed Chen and Cai in the north, repelled the three Jin states, and attacked Qin in the west," and once defeated the state of Wei, with its horses drinking water in the Yellow River.
Wu Qi served in the states of Lu, Wei, and Chu. He was well-versed in the philosophies of the military, legalism, and Confucianism, and achieved great success in both domestic affairs and military matters. He was often referred to as "Sun Wu" alongside Sun Tzu.
During the reign of Emperor Suzong of Tang, he became one of the Ten Philosophers of the Temple of Martial Arts.
He was a top-tier figure, a master strategist and a political genius!
"Ding! Summoning the fourth person, Li Jing, with a command stat of 103, martial prowess of 85, intelligence of 97, and political acumen of 82."
This Li Jing is not the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li Jing, but the Great Tang Dynasty's God of War, Li Yaoshi!
Historically, Li Jing was a general of the Tang Dynasty, who was as famous as Sun Wu, Bai Qi, Han Xin, Wei Qing, Huo Qubing and other famous generals, and was even listed as one of the Ten Philosophers of the Temple of Martial Arts.
Li Jing followed Li Shimin in his campaigns, gradually distinguishing himself. At that time, Li Jing was already 50 years old and had just begun to achieve his initial success.
From then on, Li Jing pacified the Southern Liang in the south, destroyed the Turks in the north, and quelled the Tuyuhun in the west.
Han Xin was strong because he reversed the offensive and defensive situation in the Chu-Han Contention; Wei Qing and Huo Qubing were famous because they reversed the Han Dynasty's attitude towards the Xiongnu.
The reason Li Jing is not as famous as them is that he did not encounter any worthy opponents and easily defeated them.
Li Jing pacified the Southern Liang in two months, destroyed the Eastern Turks in three months, and pacified the Tuyuhun in four months. Some of his battlefield strategies were so brilliant that even "hindsight experts" could hardly understand them. This is precisely the charm of Li Jing, the greatest general of the Tang Dynasty.
If Li Jing had actually come to Jiangdu at the end of the Sui Dynasty, it is uncertain whether the Tang Dynasty could have completed the unification!