Chapter 11 Chapter Ten Finale

The old man was a little overwhelmed, he danced and danced, and added Bai Su's words: "Or he never even thought about betting against the emperor." After finishing speaking, he and Bai Su looked at me together, obviously waiting for me to digest and understand their words. I won't consider what the old man said, but I can't ignore what Bai Su said. Bai Su said that although Nian Gengyao had the victory stone in hand, he never thought of using it.That is to say, even if he is faced with the tragic situation of slashing all over his family, he is ready to bear it, and does not want to use the function of the victory stone (if the victory stone really has such a function).

This is really something beyond reason, so I just shook my head when I first thought about it. At this time, Bai Su and I were still looking at each other, when I shook my head, Bai Su also shook her head slowly, I understood what she meant, she was saying that I was wrong when I came up. Where am I wrong? I immediately thought that I was thinking about the problem from my standpoint, so I felt that Nian Gengyao had a treasure that was sure to win, but he didn't use it, and the result was a disastrous defeat, which is inconceivable.But what if we look at the issue from Nian Gengyao's standpoint?

Nian Gengyao was a man in the era of the emperor, and his thinking methods, concepts, and behaviors were quite different from those in the modern civilization era. The era with the emperor is called the autocratic era, and the autocratic system is built on one foundation. The basis is this: the emperor's will is everything, and everyone must obey—absolutely obey.This situation even has a set of rules that everyone must abide by in order to maintain the operation of the autocratic system. In the case of Nian Gengyao, there is one rule in the whole set of rules, which is called: "The king wants the minister to die, and the minister has to die!"

If the emperor wants to chop off your head, then you should stick out your head obediently and let him chop off immediately.Before the steel knife came down, one had to kowtow to thank the emperor for his kindness, otherwise it would be treasonous, not only not qualified to be a human being, but even not qualified to be a ghost, which is intolerable by heaven and earth. People who live in a modern civilized environment think this situation is ridiculous, inhumane, barbaric and stupid, and wonder why people in that era have always lived like this.But the so-called "5,000-year culture" has always been under this system, and it has always been taken for granted.

And don't think that this autocratic system has disappeared. It doesn't exist on the surface, but in fact it still exists. Until now, servility still plays a huge role in many people, not to mention Nian Gengyao in that era. Although Nian Gengyao was a great man with all-round talents in civil and military affairs, his servility was in direct proportion to his talents. He had already taken refuge as a slave when Emperor Yongzheng was not yet the emperor. His slavishness dictates his actions, although if he bet against the Emperor he would win. But betting against the emperor, this kind of behavior is completely unimaginable for a slave.A slave would never bet against the emperor, that's not in the nature of a slave—if he did, he wouldn't be a slave.

But Nian Gengyao is an out-and-out slave! He just complained a little before being beheaded, saying that Yongzheng was a bad emperor—a slight complaint against the emperor, which is a typical behavior of a slave when he falls out of favor. If such an assumption is true, then Nian Gengyao did not use the Victory Stone at all, not that the Victory Stone had no effect. In that way, all conjectures that deny the role of the Victory Stone cannot be established. And this kind of assumption is very close to the truth--Nian Gengyao, a great slave, really didn't have the guts to bet against the emperor, or in other words, it wasn't that he didn't have the guts, but that he never even thought that he could bet against the emperor. On gambling.

So for him, it was the best result for him to have a son who escaped the emperor's killing, and maybe he felt guilty because of it - because he violated the emperor's will to have his whole family beheaded. For an out-and-out slave, this is all he can do, and it is impossible to ask him any more. All of these were things I hadn't thought of before, and I only remembered them after Bai Su's reminder.And thinking of this, although it does not help the development of the whole matter, it can explain some mysteries and affirm the function of the treasure of the victory stone. Thinking of this, I raised my eyebrows at Bai Su: "Is it like that?"

Bai Su naturally knew what I was thinking of and asked her this way, she said: "It should be like this." I spread my hands: "Even so, so what?" The two questions I asked will of course be inexplicable to those who don't know the ins and outs of the matter.But the people present all knew the root cause of the matter, so they could all understand. The chairman first said: "That at least negates the saying that the victory stone has no function of victory." I said again: "So what?" The chairman said: "This increases the possibility that the victory stone played a major role in the big winner's success."

I was about to say it for the third time, but the chairman's father asked me one step ahead, "So what?" The chairman became excited: "How? We should share some benefits! He got the treasure through the adjutant's father who told the secret. The treasure helped him win the world, so he should be rewarded—I'm not fighting for me, It's a struggle to remember our ancestors!" After he finished speaking, he paused for a while, and then said: "Of course, if Sheng Nianzu gets benefits, I can also benefit from it." He spoke very frankly. The chairman's father looked at me: "I said just now that the father of the adjutant did not tell the adjutant the appearance and characteristics of the young man he met in the grove. You find it very strange." ,Yes or no?"

I nodded: "Yes. Since the adjutant's father affirmed that the young man will be the emperor in the future, and told the secrets of his ancestors, of course he hoped that he could gain some benefits from the emperor in the future. But he didn't tell who the young man was. My own son, doing this will prevent the adjutant Sheng from taking refuge early, which is really contradictory." The old man still ignored the chairman and continued to talk to me. He said: "If the father of the adjutant had told the adjutant who the young man was, everything would be very different, wouldn't it?"

Before I could answer, the chairman rushed to say: "Of course! The adjutant will join the army as usual. If he follows this big winner, of course the tide will rise and all boats will rise to prosperity. Big shot." The old man still looked at me: "Do you know how many families were destroyed and how many people died in the process of the big winner winning the world? The big winner keeps betting, and his bet is the lives of others!" I nodded: "Yes, once a general succeeds, his bones will be exhausted, let alone an emperor!" The old man said again: "It took tens of millions of lives to create a big winner!" When he said this, he looked at the chairman: "Do you think that if Adjutant Sheng had trusted him early, he would not have become a losing bet early in the gambling? Don't forget that in one game, he bet 400,000 people. Life is a bet, if he loses less than 30,000 people that time, the more than 300,000 people who lost to him all took refuge in him early!" The chairman opened his mouth wide, and had nothing to say for a moment. The old man sighed: "Even if you have a narrow escape, there will be no danger in the future, and the journey will be smooth. As you said, what will happen if you reach the position of an extremely human minister—one under one person and above hundreds of millions of people?" The chairman not only opened his mouth wide, but also seemed to be having difficulty breathing. There was a sound like pulling a bellows from his throat, and his expression was quite scary. Seeing his expression, he naturally thought of something. He thought of the real situation, the result of the person who is "under one person and above hundreds of millions". Everyone knew that this man died a horrible death. After suffering physical and mental torture and humiliation, he starved to death! After death, there are no bones left! This kind of situation makes people shudder when they think about it. No wonder the chairman's expression has become so ugly. The old man asked slowly: "Do you hope that the adjutant will end up like this?" The chairman still couldn't make a sound, just shook his head hard. The old man sighed: "Adjutant Sheng's father was in the grove at that time, when he saw the young man, he didn't even have time to think about it, so he was awed by the young man's demeanor and bowed down at the young man's feet, this kind of reaction is very natural. But when he had a chance to think about it, he calmed down and his head was no longer overheated. He naturally knew that taking red money from such a big winner was like jumping into the crater to get gold and silver, even if he could get it. Men, too, are burned to ashes! How could he wish his son to have anything to do with that young man when he knows that?" The chairman nodded, expressing his understanding. The old man said again: "In any gamble, there are winners and there are losers. A super big winner is caused by many losers, big and small. An emperor trampled on countless corpses before he could step on the throne of the emperor." throne. There is only one big winner, and the rest are all losers!" When the old man said this, he took a breath and continued: "Adjutant Sheng's father is actually very easy to understand this point, because his ancestors are the losers around the big winners, and he knows clearly that the more help you give to the big winners , the result will be even worse. That's why he regards the adventure in the grove as a dream, and no longer pins any hope on it. He is so clever in doing so that the life of the adjutant can be enjoyed forever, and he does not have to suffer endlessly. torture, don't have to be a bet for big winners." He cast a stern look at the chairman: "And you still want to ask the big winner for red money!" The chairman looked bitter, and he explained: "It's easy for me to understand this truth, but Sheng Nianzu, a bastard, can't understand it. He thought we had already obtained the treasure. We discussed here, and we got the old general again." The tragic loss is because he didn't use the treasure, which proves that the treasure is super powerful, Sheng Nianzu's desire to get the treasure is even stronger, who can make him understand that the treasure can't be found at all?" Although the matter has nothing to do with me at all, but I have experienced Sheng Nianzu's behavior before, and I know that it is terrible to be constantly pestered by him.The chairman and him are two generations of friends, and they can't turn their backs on each other, so it caused great trouble. After the chairman said this, everyone remained silent for a while.Bai Su broke the silence first, and she said: "You don't need to let him know everything we discussed—if he knows, he will definitely go after the benefits he thinks he deserves, and the result will be a catastrophe." Everyone agreed with Bai Su's words. Bai Su said again: "With the intelligence of Sheng Nianzu, and he doesn't know about the incident in the grove, he must not be able to think of who the super big winner is. Get in touch with Shengshi." When she said this, she glanced at me with a faint smile, and the chairman and his son also had strange expressions. I know that the subtext that Bai Su didn't say is: After Lian Wesley knew all the information, he had to go through repeated reminders before he could think of who the super winner was. This shows that the chance of Sheng Nianzu thinking of it is extremely small. This kind of subtext comes from Bai Su, and I have no choice but to stare back at her. Bai Su said again: "So you can encourage him to continue looking for treasures. Anyway, he can afford it, and you can afford it. Just let him spend his whole life searching for his ancestral treasures." The chairman applauded happily, expressing his approval.The old man still had some hesitation on his face, Bai Su smiled and said: "This is the best for him - it is a kind of endless fun to search continuously, and Sheng Nianzu will enjoy this kind of fun very much. As for his suspicion that you have obtained the treasure, as long as you Just name a few winners who have won more in life than you, and it can prove that the winning stone is not in your hands—if the winning stone is in your hands, how can there be so few winners!" The chairman felt the same way: "Yes, too few! Too few!" In terms of the wealth of the chairman and his son, it cannot be described as "less" anyway, let alone "too little".But in terms of human's infinite desire, even if it is increased tenfold, it is still "too little". The old man nodded: "Yes, this is the best for him—the adjutant only told me what happened to his father but not him, the reason is the same." I spread my hands and said that was exactly the case. The old man took a few steps back and forth with a cane, and then bid farewell to us. After their father and son left, Bai Su looked at me silently, and I was annoyed: "Of course you know what I'm going to do next!" Bai Su nodded: "Yes, I have no objection, but I don't think there will be any results." I thought for a while: "Do you mean that he never got the winning stone at all, or that he has the winning stone and I can't find out the result?" Bai Su's answer was beyond my expectation, but absolutely reasonable, she said: "I don't know." I had no choice but to smile bitterly──Although Bai Su knew that what I was going to do would have no results, she still tried her best to help me when I was doing it. Since then, intermittently, for at least a year or so, I have devoted myself to collecting all kinds of information—all related to this "person", paying special attention to all kinds of gambling games, big and small.During his journey to the emperor's throne, there were thousands of gambles, almost every day, only in terms of scale. According to the data, he was not long in the capital, and his relationship with the university in the capital was also short-lived.I found out the exact date of the earthquake, and found that not long after the earthquake, he left the capital and started his journey. At the beginning, he was not successful, and he was always at a disadvantage in various forms of gambling.But I found a very strange phenomenon, that is, no matter what kind of bad disadvantage he is in, he will never lose everything, and he can always keep some capital. Not only that, but his capital was miraculously accumulating, which helped a lot. What's even more inconceivable is that, for him, what was supposed to be a great crisis of subjugation caused his capital to increase exponentially. (He himself has publicly admitted that the army that wanted to subjugate the country helped him a lot.) There is a rule in any gambling: the richer the capital, the greater the chance of winning.And the more money you have, the bigger the gamble you will be participating in. Therefore, the bets related to him have also grown from small to large—from hundreds of thousands of people betting, to hundreds of thousands, millions, and hundreds of millions of people betting on him. At that time, in the game of gambling, he has almost no disadvantages, and the words "every bet is sure to win" can't be more appropriate when added to him. In the process of many of his wins, it can only be described as "miracle". What's even more incredible is that many years after he became a big winner, he invested in another bigger gamble, taking everything in the world as his own dog, anyone, anything, and anything became his bet, and He became a winner again in this gamble. All his life, he was a winner. These materials are not secret and can be obtained by anyone.Of course, there are many secret materials that are not accessible to ordinary people—those secrets may never be known. In order to get more first-hand information, I went to meet my childhood friend, General Tie. General Tie once fought under this "person", fought south and north, and made great achievements, but in the end he almost died (the situation is somewhat the same as that of General Nian). I explained in detail how and what happened. General Tie laughed out loud after hearing this. I dare say he has never laughed like this since his accident. He smiled and called me by my nickname: "You are really entertaining, thank you for thinking of it!" He was out of breath from laughing, and it took a while before he stopped laughing. He suddenly looked at me with a worried expression on his face, and said seriously: "You have been thinking wildly like this, will it become delusional? patient?" I didn't expect him to have such a reaction, I said: "You have no impression at all, this big winner may hide a treasure that makes him win every gamble?" He raised his voice: "I don't believe there is such a treasure at all!" I still don't give up: "Answer my question." He said, "Of course not!" I asked again: "You don't have any doubts about him, even if the situation is extremely bad at the beginning, he can always become a winner in the end. It has been the same for decades and thousands of games. Why is this so?" General Tie let out a long sigh: "You tell me that this is his luck, his fate, and I can still accept it. You even said that someone, when he was still a young man, could see that he had the appearance of an emperor. , I can also accept it. In fact, even he has a certain degree of metaphysical knowledge such as magic numbers, and he can also accept calculations in this area. But what is the winning stone is a fantasy. Totally impossible!" I wanted to say something more, but General Tie said again: "You should pay more attention to some history, instead of looking for the root cause as soon as you hear a weird legend-the weirder the legend, the more energetic you are. In your imagination, that The so-called Victory Stone must be something left by aliens, haha...haha..." He must have been genuinely amused, so he laughed so hard that his wheelchair wobbled. Originally, I had a question and I didn't want to ask him, so as not to hurt his self-esteem. At this time, I saw that he was smiling quite abhorrently, so I asked it out. I asked loudly, over its laughter. I asked him: "If you have the Victory Stone, and the Victory Stone really has the function of making you win every bet, at that time you were humiliated, wronged, and faced death, and you knew that he was responsible for all of this." Will you bet against him in a game hosted by him?" As soon as this question was raised, its laughter stopped immediately, and its face became very pale.I know it's cruel to bring up the past with him, but now that it's been brought up, I want to know the answer. So I stared at him, not at all relaxed. After a while, he said weakly, "I don't have a victory stone, so I had no choice but to jump off the building and commit suicide." I paused word by word: "What if you have?" He clasped his head in his hands, and after quite a while, he said, "I have no choice but to commit suicide—I won't bet with him, and I haven't even thought about it." I reached out and patted his shoulder for a while, apologizing. This meeting with General Tie was not fruitless, at least it proved that our speculation that Nian Gengyao didn't use the victory stone at that time was in line with the facts. Things are just like what I said to the chairman and his son. Since there is no possibility of new development, it is natural to have to come to an end.Just like what Bai Su had expected, there would be no results at all in the pursuit of the truth—in fact, I didn't know there would be no results, but I knew that there was nothing I could do, and it was expected that there would be no results. For friends who require every story to have a "big ending", it is naturally very dissatisfied.Never mind though, a popular way of looking at a story for entertainment is for the reader to find the finale for themselves, and those who have done it say it is a lot of fun.In this story, I am actually just a person who listens to the story, so I might as well look for it and make it up. A "step-by-step" approach can be taken to fabricate. Start with total denial. To completely negate is to deny the story fundamentally—there is no victory stone at all, and there is not even the fact that Nian Gengyao's youngest son escaped and changed his surname from Nian to Sheng. Everything is fabricated out of thin air. Under this premise, of course there is no so-called finale, because there is nothing in the first place. Acknowledging some facts, the younger son escaped for his life, changed his surname, etc., and he may have brought some treasures with him when he fled for his life, but those were just ordinary treasures, not some victory stone.And the so-called Victory Stone is just a story made up for self-comfort, so the ending of the story will be so dull that it is not worth mentioning. Acknowledge some facts, there are treasures like the Victory Stone, and its function is indeed to make the holder of the treasure win every bet.Treasures are hidden in caves, just like the stories I heard. I don’t know when it was taken away by whom. It doesn’t matter when it was taken away. Only by knowing who was taken away can an interesting story be developed. ──Treasures can be taken away by anyone, so stories with any plot can be developed. It is just that the sky allows birds to fly, and the sea is wide to allow fish to leap. You can think about it. Acknowledging some more facts, the treasure of the Victory Stone was indeed taken away by the young man with the appearance of an emperor, and he also won the country by this, so I don't know what the final outcome will be, because I haven't reached the big one yet. At the end. But one thing is for sure, any emperor or the emperor's successor must have a Qin Shihuang-like dream, hoping that his dynasty can be passed down like the first, second, thousand, and ten thousand generations, and the finale must be such a dream. Crush before the fact that the dynasty collapsed. This kind of finale is absolutely certain──there are countless such grand finales recorded in history. This is an unchangeable iron law. Even if there is a treasure like the Victory Stone, which is passed down from generation to generation, the treasure will fail Time, so the situation of winning or losing will change. No matter how you imagine it, this is the finale that will inevitably happen, which is the finale of this story! (full text)