Chapter 31 Lian Po and Pang Nuan's Conversation

"Let's fight?" Lian Po picked up the wine cup, drank it all, and then laughed and said: "It's okay to fight."

"I left to join the Wei army. Although I have the title of general, I have no real military power."

"Life is boring, so it's good to have a fight or drink with someone."

When Pang Nuan heard this, he could sense the helplessness and frustration in Lian Po's heart.

It is so sad that the great general of the State of Zhao, who was famous all over the world, now has to leave his hometown and cannot fulfill his ambitions.

"I intend to enter Zhao. If you can bow your head a little, you may have a chance to return to Zhao."

Lian Po was stunned by Pang Nuan’s words. Various emotions rolled in his eyes and finally turned into stubbornness.

Lian Po shook his head and said firmly: "I am still upset about the dispute with Le Sheng in the past."

"Although I have great ambitions, it is difficult for others to tolerate me!"

Hearing this, Pang Nuan was speechless. How dare you, Lian Po, say that you "cannot be tolerated by others"? In fact, you, Lian Po, are not a person who can tolerate others.

When there was a conflict with Lin Xiangru, if Lin Xiangru had not bowed his head first, there would have been no reconciliation between the general and the prime minister after he apologized with a thorny stick on his back.

Lian Po didn't know what Pang Nuan was thinking at the moment, so he said, "It's a good time for you to enter Zhao."

"I had a dispute with Le Cheng, Le Cheng fled, and I went to Wei."

"Among all the generals of Zhao State, only Li Mu's faction is the most powerful. King Zhao needs to balance the military power, so the court needs a general who can lead the troops to fight the enemy but has little connection with Li Mu's faction."

"You are entering Zhao at this time. If your talents are recognized by the King of Zhao, he will surely make use of you."

Lian Po's analysis made Pang Nuan nod slightly. He thought so too.

He needs a stage, a stage without many constraints.

Zhao State is more suitable than Wei State!
The two did not talk much about this matter. Pang Nuan drank a glass of wine, put down the glass, and reminded Lian Po: "You will not be able to be reused in Wei."

"Not to mention that when you were a general of Zhao, you often attacked Wei."

"Also, the group headed by Wei Yong and others in the Wei court now don't want you to divide the military power of Wei."

Lian Po remained silent. Since entering Wei, various situations have proved that Pang Nuan's reminder was correct.

"In fact, the deeper reason is because of Xinling Jun Wei Wuji, right?"

Lian Po lowered his voice and spoke, and Pang Nuan nodded heavily.

Back then, Lord Xinling Wei Wuji stole the seal to save Zhao. Although he succeeded in attacking Qin, he also escaped from Wei and entered Zhao.

Although he later chose to come back for the sake of Wei, in the eyes of the King of Wei, if he was reused, then his friendship with Xinling Jun Wei Wuji would have a very bad impact.

The best proof of this is that in recent years, Lord Xinling Wei Wuji could only stay in his fiefdom Xinling.

"As a friend, I don't want you to step into the vortex of power in Wei. If you no longer have the ambition to achieve success, it doesn't matter if you just stay away from it."

"But if you still have ambitions for fame and success in your heart, there is no place for you in the court of Wei."

"If you want to find a chance, it's better to go to Chu to find it than to stay in Wei and get drunk every day."

Lian Po was bitter when he heard this and sighed, "Although there is a glimmer of hope for us to enter Chu, you and I both know that the powerful families in Chu are even more terrifying."

As he said this, Lian Po felt disappointed and drank the wine in the cup.

Pang Nuan was speechless upon seeing this. In fact, the best way for Lian Po was to bow to King Zhao and return to Zhao.

But a man like Lian Po, once he chooses to bow his head, he is no longer Lian Po.

"Forget it, forget it. Let's not talk about this. Although my ambitions are still unfulfilled, after many years of fighting, I have earned the reputation of Lian Po in the world."

The two men drank a cup together and did not talk about the matter anymore. At this time, a new round of winners appeared on the discussion stage.

"He is a member of the famous school again. His style of sophistry is really deviating more and more from the 'Tao' of Huizi, the ancestor of the famous school." Lian Po saw that the boy on the stage was getting carried away and said with disdain. In the past, Huizi and Zhuangzi discussed Taoism. Although they had a dispute over Taoism, students all over the world had their own understandings.

Today's famous scholars are increasingly turning to sophistry. Although they have a reputation, they are not valued by the other schools of thought.

The more one wants famous people to prosper, the more one wants to take shortcuts. As time goes by, although one has fame, one lacks innovative learning that can be admired.

"Haha, in the past Huizi was the prime minister of Wei and was a great sage of Wei."

"Later, Huizi and Zhuangzi argued about the Dao, and argued about the Dao, but they became good friends."

"It is said that Zhuangzi left a scroll of letters to Huizi's descendants, in order to discuss the recognition of Huizi's teachings. Now Gongsun Long has come with the famous scholars, probably to seize the scroll and make it the orthodox school of famous scholars from now on."

Pang Nuan told him his guess, and Lian Po shook his head and smiled, saying: "Gongsun Long's goal is to suppress others with his power."

"He wanted to make a name for himself in Daliang so that the King of Wei would not be able to help Huizi's descendants."

Offending the fallen descendants of Huizi? Or offending the famous people?

Judging from the current situation, we can predict what choice the King of Wei will make.

"After three consecutive days of discussing the Dao, his goal has been achieved."

Pang Nuan agreed with Lian Po's judgment and sighed: "The dispute over orthodoxy is difficult to resolve. If the King of Wei does not want to get involved in the dispute among the various schools of thought, the best option is to watch and say nothing."

The disputes over orthodoxy among each of the hundreds of schools of thought have always been bloody.

The disputes within Confucianism, the two schools of heaven and man in Taoism, the three divisions of Mohism, and so on, are all like this.

The kings of various countries can employ people according to their own preferences, but they have never directly expressed their attitudes on who they support as the orthodox.

For example, in the Mohist school, Qin Mo was highly valued by the Qin State, but the Qin kings of all dynasties never stated that Qin Mo was the orthodox Mohist school.

"Haha, what do you think would happen if someone deliberately caused chaos in this famous family's dispute over orthodoxy?"

Lian Po said this with a fearless look, and Pang Nuan was speechless. If one were to say which school among the hundreds of schools of thought would be least likely to fight for orthodoxy, it would have to be their school of military strategists.

Because of this, military strategists have always followed the same standard: the winner is the king and the loser is the bandit.

You mean orthodox?

Then let's not argue about it. As long as it's a military strategy, you can learn it. No matter whether it's orthodox or not, it's better to test your skills on the battlefield.

Because of this, whenever the military strategists saw other schools of thought fighting for orthodoxy, they would clamor for those people to follow the military strategists' way.

As long as the opponent is killed, the winner will be the legitimate winner.

Simple and direct, how nice!

"Don't think about it. If something goes wrong, it will be a disaster."

Pang Nuan reminded Lian Po speechlessly that when you, Lian Po, were in charge of the military power, if you really wanted to do something, people would just accept it.

But now you, Lian Po, have left Zhao and entered Wei, with only the Lianyun Flying Cavalry of about 300 men under your command. Although they are elite, they are already in a very poor state.

If things really get out of hand, Lian Po won't even know how he died.

Lian Po realized that he had said something wrong, and said with an awkward smile: "I am very bored, so I just want to see some fun."

Pang Nuan's mouth twitched. My goodness, you really want to see a lot of fun.

Seeing that Lian Po had been persuaded, Pang Nuan was just about to analyze a few more sentences for him, but at this moment, he and Lian Po looked in the same direction at the same time.

"Why is he here too?"

The two looked at each other in bewilderment. This time, it seemed that things were really going to get lively.

(End of this chapter)