The Mythical Version of the Three Kingdoms: The Evil God Arrives

Chapter 513 Sun Qian: I (can) train soldiers
"Gongyou, what do you feel now when you see the progress on Ziyu's side?" Chen Xi looked at Sun Qian, who was tightly holding the intelligence documents, with a teasing look on his face.

The news that Yang Ji built a twelve-meter-wide stone road between Chengdu and Hanchang in one month had already reached Taishan.

It just so happened that Sun Qian had returned from the site selection for the Yellow River Bridge, so Chen Xi showed the intelligence documents to Sun Qian, as well as the corresponding video footage, to ensure the authenticity of the matter.

Then Sun Qian finished reading the video data in the secret magic mirror. He held the intelligence document tightly in one hand and the secret magic mirror tightly in the other hand. He stood there in a daze with lifeless eyes, as if he was autistic, not saying a word.

Chen Xi's voice finally woke up Sun Qian. He stared at Chen Xi and said speechlessly, "If you can't speak, then don't speak. No one thinks you are dumb."

"Gongyou is getting more aggressive. It seems that the commotion caused by Ziyu has really dealt him a big blow." Chen Xi turned around and muttered to Fanqin beside him.

Sun Qian stared at Chen Xi with a bad look. Did he really think that no one would be able to hear him if he spoke softly? At least the people here have practiced Qigong, and sharp hearing and eyesight are their basic qualities, right?

Maybe the civil engineer's eyes were too sharp, so Chen Xi could only stop muttering and said to Sun Qian seriously: "How about I ask Zi Yu to get those engineering teams back and give them to you to use?"

"No, I will go to Sichuan in person and ask Zi Yu to give me a copy of the relevant elite talent information. I will go back to the construction site and find a few engineering teams to replace their talents." Sun Qian said expressionlessly. It was not known when the Yizhou engineering team would be able to complete their work in Yizhou, so it was better to let them stay in Yizhou.

"You can train troops?" Chen Xi's eyes widened. It was hard for him to believe that Sun Qian could actually train troops. After all, whether it was the novel or the official history, or even their collaboration over the past few years, no one had discovered that Sun Qian had any talent in military command.

Most of the time, Sun Qian appeared in front of people as Liu Bei's adviser and diplomat. Although it cannot be said that Sun Qian knew nothing about military affairs, after all, there were no pure civil officials in those days. It's just that military command and military theory are actually two different things most of the time.

“As long as it’s about engineering construction, I know it.” Sun Qian said very calmly. He just didn’t think of using elite talents to do engineering construction before, so Sun Qian didn’t have to understand training soldiers.

However, after Yang Ji used elite talents to carry out construction projects, the situation changed. Elite talents used to be exclusive to the military field, but now it is time for elite talents to be used for civilian purposes. So let his engineering construction department do this pilot project first.

The pupils of the people at the scene trembled. They did not expect that Sun Qian was so strong in engineering construction that he even said that he knew all the technologies related to engineering construction.

"Is this true? Are they kidding us?" Chen Xi looked incredulous.

"How do you think I manage so many engineering and construction corps under my command?" Sun Qian looked unfathomable. Although it was true that even with a certain level of military management ability, it might not be possible to manage those engineering and construction corps.

That’s right, the engineering team under Sun Qian is also part of the military sequence under Liu Bei’s rule. There is absolutely no problem in calling it the Engineering Construction Corps. Moreover, it is also the largest military group under Liu Bei’s rule.

When Chen Xi heard this, he was obviously stunned for a moment, and then he realized what Sun Qian said. This era is not the future. In this era, only military groups can gather such a large number of people leaving their jobs.

"Hasn't your engineering and construction corps produced any corresponding elite talents?" Chen Xi asked curiously. Isn't it said that elite talents are the manifestation of collective will in reality? Sun Qian's engineering and construction corps should also be able to manifest corresponding construction elite talents. Why does it sound like Sun Qian's words mean that there is no manifestation?

"You and Zijing have experience in managing millions of people. Has the super-large-scale collective organization under your management manifested elite talents?" Sun Qian asked back.

Sun Qian said helplessly: "Do you really think that elite talents are so easy to train? Zi Yu was able to do it so easily because he was standing there in the first place."

Chen Xi was silent. It seemed that what Sun Qian said was true. If elite talents were really that easy to come by, they would not be top-level skills that only a few people could master.

According to the correct theory that elite talents are the manifestation of collective will in reality, when he and Lu Su were managing a population of one million, although quite a number of them had other thoughts in their minds, it must be admitted that the one million people under Chen Xi and Lu Su at that time did have the same idea.

Think about a legion of 5,000 people. If they can manifest elite talents when their organizational capabilities are sufficient, it is impossible to say that a group of one million people with similar beliefs cannot manifest an elite talent, right?

The million people managed by Chen Xi and Lu Su at the time could not be compared with the army in terms of organizational ability, but compared with some miscellaneous soldiers, their organizational ability was already strong. At least Chen Xi and Lu Su were able to convey their orders to the grassroots and enable the grassroots to act according to their orders.

Under Chen Xi's management, the collective will of millions of people has a greatest common denominator, and this common denominator is also the belief recognized by the collective.

Under the premise of a belief recognized by everyone, the collective will of millions of people gathered together did not manifest an elite talent except for the clouds.

This shows that the theory that "elite talents are the manifestation of collective will in reality" is not valid in some cases.

Chen Xi said, "Do you think Zi Yu has the ability to make a group of millions manifest the same elite talent?"

"Of course, it's not like he hasn't done that before." Sun Qian said with some exhaustion. It's true that [Elite talents are the manifestation of collective will in reality], but when the scale of collective will rises to the level of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions, the required will integration ability is not something that ordinary individuals can provide.

Even if someone like Chen Xi could find the greatest common divisor for a group of this size and make the group believe in a certain belief, there is no way to integrate these collective wills and manifest elite talents in reality.

Although, even if there is no commander-in-chief with unified collective will, elite talents will spontaneously manifest in reality under a belief that is recognized by everyone.

However, that will only happen when the collective size is still small. Once the size increases, even if there is a belief that everyone agrees on, if there is no one to integrate the collective will, the elite talents will not manifest in reality.

"Then, do you think that after you get the talent information of the Yizhou Construction Corps, you can make the construction corps under your command also manifest the same elite talents?" Chen Xi asked. Although Sun Qian said that he could train soldiers, only he himself knew how much water was in it.

Training soldiers? He said it as if everyone could do it. Sun Qian was silent for a while before saying, "I can't guarantee that I will succeed, but it should be no problem for Zi Yu to turn those talented people into Xuan Xiang."

"Solidify Xuanxiang..." Chen Xi frowned and thought for a while. It seemed that Sun Qian's idea was very promising. After all, elite talents most of the time needed someone to integrate the collective will in order to manifest.

However, there is no need for a formation that only depends on the changes in clouds to solidify Xuanxiang. As long as there are clouds and a civil official who can construct and solidify Xuanxiang, the soldiers under him can receive corresponding blessings.

"When do you plan to leave for Yizhou?" Chen Xi asked curiously. He knew that Sun Qian's return to Fenggao was not because of Yang Ji's matter. Yang Ji's matter was just an emergency.

Sun Qian returned to Fenggao to discuss the construction of the Yellow River Bridge with Chen Xi. He has now led people to select the construction site of the bridge and even the design has begun.

However, when he actually started designing the Yellow River Bridge, Sun Qian realized how advanced the technology required to build this bridge was. The design could be designed, but whether it could be built would depend on the development of current bridge construction technology.

Sun Qian was very clear about the current bridge construction technology of the Han Dynasty. They were able to build it, but Sun Qian still wanted to find out from Chen Xi whether there was any new technology developed at Taishan Academy recently. After all, Chen Xi would go to Taishan Academy from time to time to find out what technology those guys had developed, in order to prevent certain technology from being buried in piles of papers.

The way Chen Xi and Yang Ji think is completely different from that of normal people. Although from the performance point of view, there is no difference between these two people in a group of people, but if you observe carefully, you can still find the difference in cognition between these two people and others in certain aspects.

"We'll leave in three days. There are still some things we need to take care of at the construction site." Sun Qian pondered for a moment and set his departure time at three days later.

"By the way, during your time at Taishan Academy, have you found any new technologies that can be used in engineering construction?" Sun Qian talked about the reason why he returned to Fenggao.

"Those people in the academy are now busy discussing things in Chang'an. They don't have time to develop new technologies." Chen Xi shook his head. Ever since Liu Bei defeated Yuan Shao, everyone has been discussing when Liu Xie would abdicate the throne to Liu Bei. As a result, Liu Bei had no choice but to hide with Li You and Jia Xu, and Chen Xi could not leave early either.

Sun Qian's eyes flashed, and he asked, "Lord Xuande, what are you doing now?"

"I'm discussing with Li Wenru and Jia Wenhe how to solve this problem." Chen Xi curled his lips. Didn't he just seem a little leisurely? Did Liu Bei have to take both Li You and Jia Xu away?

"What is Lord Xuande going to do by taking these two people away?" Sun Qian was shocked. Liu Bei actually took Li You and Jia Xu out to do bad things. It's scary to think about it.

"What else can we do? Deal with the things in Chang'an." Chen Xi said indifferently. Liu Xie would definitely abdicate in the end anyway. As for whether the person to abdicate would be Liu Bei, it depended on whether Liu Bei himself wanted to do it.

Of course, Chen Xi himself did not really want Liu Bei to accept the abdication. Without the emperor, many of his arrangements could play the greatest role. Although Liu Bei's succession was not a big problem, Chen Xi always felt that if Liu Bei succeeded, future development would be subject to certain constraints.

"There are still things to be done at the construction site, so I won't stay." Sun Qian stood up and said goodbye to Chen Xi and other people in the Government Affairs Office. He didn't want to know, and couldn't know, such things.

After saying goodbye to the officials in the Government Affairs Office, Sun Qian ran away immediately. He would rather argue with the construction workers on the construction site about some irrelevant things than get involved in the turmoil in Chang'an.

Of course, if Liu Bei took the initiative to gather people, Sun Qian would not fool them. But now Liu Bei has made it clear that he wants to solve the problem himself, so there is no need for them to get involved. They should just wait for Liu Bei to solve it.

"Tsk..." Chen Xi just shook his head at Sun Qian's escape. It would be better for them not to get too involved in such things. Of course, Li You and Jia Xu didn't care.

PS Jia Xu: What does I care about?

"By the way, are you not surprised at all about Yizhou's construction of the army?" Xun You, who had little presence, suddenly said.

"Uh..." Chen Xi's gaze shifted, and he finally found Xun You's figure in a corner. His face twitched violently.

Once again, Xun You appeared in front of everyone silently. If Xun You hadn't spoken on his own initiative, no one might have noticed Xun You until the meeting was over.

"The effect of your spiritual talent is getting stronger and stronger." Xun Yu said with a wry smile. He was the person who was most familiar with Xun You here, but he didn't notice Xun You.

Xun You glanced at Xun Yu. If you can sense him so easily, then what is the point of his hard work in developing his spiritual talents these days?

Chen Xi had already reacted and said to Xun You: "You should know that it was me who asked Zi Yu to go to Yizhou."

"In other words, you know what Zi Yu will do?" Xi Zhicai asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah." Chen Xi nodded and said, "I can roughly imagine what type of elite talent he will come up with. I just didn't expect him to cultivate it so quickly."

Although Chen Xi could imagine what methods Yang Ji would use to build the Micang Road after arriving in Yizhou, he never thought about how Yang Ji was so cruel that he built a 12-meter-wide secondary stone road to Bazhong (Hanchang) in just one month.

Everyone thought about the distance between Chengdu and Hanchang, and nodded to indicate that Chen Xi was right. Yang Ji was indeed a cruel and ruthless guy.

(End of this chapter)