Yang Zhi felt that he drank a little too much, and the scenery in front of him seemed to be spinning. Normally, his drinking capacity was not that bad. Maybe what he heard today was a bit too sensational.
Li Tuo's voice sounded far and near in his ears, erratic, and everything around him felt so unrealistic, but he knew very well that a completely unfamiliar world had opened its door to him.
"Who is in charge of the world today? In my opinion, Li Tuo, there are just such a few forces. It has been two hundred years since the Manchus settled in the Central Plains. Although the huge Eight Banners system is rigid, by joining forces with the Confucian scholars, it can still be regarded as the leader of this country. It’s perfect…”
"The second force is of course the Qingliu Confucian officials. Perhaps according to what Xiao Letian said in the Journey to the West, this group of people is called the landlord gentry class..."
"What is the third force? Bah...it's that group of stinky businessmen. Although they are suppressed very hard, the influence of this group of people is not small..."
Li Tuo's voice swirled around Yang Zhi like a dream, and Yang Zhi mumbled and asked, "Why are you telling me this? What do you want to do with everything you told me today? Why should I know these things..."
Li Tuo ignored him completely, and continued to whisper nonsense: "What is the fourth force? Of course it is the Han warlords. Marshal Zeng is awesome. With the power of one person and the east wind of the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom, he can conquer the world in one go." The political structure of the Qing Dynasty for two hundred years was torn apart and rebuilt..."
"The fourth force is the foreigners. Yes, it is the foreign forces that Xiao Letian is best at balancing..."
"Who is the fifth force? Hahaha... That is us, we are the little officials who walk in the gray area and have truly influenced history, but will not be recorded in any history books..."
"Yang Zhi, Yang Zhi! You have to see yourself clearly. You come to the court of the Qing Dynasty alone. Who of the four forces in front of you will truly accept you? They just treat you like a dog. The cunning rabbit will be cooked by the lackey!"
"A married couple is never as close as a married couple. You are just a concubine. I will play with you for a few years and then throw it aside when it is no longer valuable... Now you can only take refuge in us, the fifth force of ours." , we are the only force that still doesn’t have a real leader, and we are willing to recommend you to become the leader!”
"Yang Zhi? Yang Zhi! Yang Zhi..." The voice was like a kid urging him to die. Yang Zhi's head was so dizzy that he seemed to be hallucinating.
"Yang Zhi! Open your eyes and see what we are? Hahaha... we are not humans, nor are we ghosts. We are the embodiment of thousands of years of Chinese officials. Are we the so-called bureaucratic class?"
"We are invisible, but we are everywhere. No one can catch our shadow, but we really affect this history... Sushun is a fool in front of us, and the emperor is a fool in front of us! Even my head It grows from flesh, and if it is cut off, it will not grow again, but how many bureaucrats are there in the world?"
"We can't be beaten or killed! We are like weeds and vines wrapped around all the political powers in the world. We desperately suck the nutrients from the mother body of political power. Even if you chop us with a knife, burn us with fire, or poison us …”
"So what can I do? The wild fire cannot be burned out, but the spring breeze blows and regenerates. If you kill me a hundred, I will regenerate a thousand. If you kill me a thousand, I will regenerate ten thousand. If you kill me ten thousand, I will infect all living beings in this world..."
"Yang Zhi, have you ever heard of... There is such a strange and legendary disease in this world. First, a small piece of flesh becomes diseased on the human body. It tortures you so much that you don't want to live. Then you ruthlessly cut off the piece of flesh with a knife. , but within two days, another two pieces of skin had lesions..."
"You will keep cutting your own flesh with a knife, but the diseased flesh and blood is everywhere. Maybe it is just a small shadow in the lungs at first, then the intestines and stomach, then the liver and gallbladder, and then the bone marrow and brain ...If you keep cutting, it will keep growing, and the descendants will be endless!"
"We are this bizarre and legendary disease of karma. We have no cure, we have no cure, we are invincible, we are immortal! Come into our arms, I will make you Yang Zhi king, I It will make your heart spread its wings and fly..."
"In this gray area, with the help of me, Li Tuo, you are the king, the uncrowned king!"
Yang Zhi was drunk. He felt that everything he encountered today was fake and a dream. He even laughed infatuatedly, "Nonsense... nonsense! Where in the world is there such a disease... Where are you?" And so powerful...I don’t believe it, I just don’t believe it!”
Li Tuo smiled and took a sip of his wine, "Don't you believe it? Haha, can I tell you that even Marshal Zeng has our allies within his inner circle? Now even the Queen Mother and the Prince cannot analyze the Marshal's thoughts clearly, but But I know what happened in Nanjing thousands of miles away, this is my ability..."
"What does the Marshal want to do? In fact, I know it better than anyone else, because we bureaucrats, our lifelong specialty is studying people! The Marshal is old, and now he just wants to be a big lock, a tight lock In the current hard-won situation in China, there can be small frictions, but he will never allow a major civil war!"
Yang Zhi's head hit the table with a bang. He turned his head and looked at Li Tuo, looking at the distorted face. "You said... you mentioned the five forces, then... then who is Xiao Letian? Is he? Isn’t it a force?”
Li Tuo's expression suddenly became strange, and he silently put down the cup. Li Tuo shook his head, "Many of us regard Xiao Letian as the sixth force, but I, Li Tuo, have a different view... He, Xiao Letian, cannot be regarded as a force. , he can only be regarded as a hidden force..."
"Because he has always stayed away from the five forces in China, and because he is always at a distance from the five forces, with weak enemies appearing, appearing hidden, strong and weak... You know where he is, but you But I can’t find a clear boundary between him and other forces..."
"You have me in you, and you have me in you. He can form alliances with all forces, and he can go to war with these forces at any time. Moreover, he is also good at dismantling and dividing the forces of all parties that are clearly distinct..."
"So, Xiao Letian cannot be regarded as the sixth force, he is just a hidden force... In other words, Xiao Letian is not a human at all, he is just a... ghost!"
"Fuck you!" With a roar, the drunkard Yang Zhi suddenly rushed over like a tiger, and his right fist flew straight towards Li Tuo's door as fast as a shooting star.
Hearing a muffled bang, Li Tuo's nose started to bleed, and he took a few steps back and hit the wall with his back.
The drunken Yang Zhi had lost consciousness. His pupils were dilated, and everything in front of him was a hazy phantom. "Go...fuck you...the Prime Minister...is not a ghost!"
After saying that, Yang Zhi fell to the ground and snored loudly. He was completely drunk.
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