NOVGO.NET Chapter 797 - Chapter 797: Chapter 345: Three Countries in Lingnan_2
Chapter 797: Chapter 345: Three Countries in Lingnan_2
It was all just selfishness.
Even during the Nanhai Sect era, let alone the Nanhai Country era, it was so.
Back when it was the sect, it belonged to the public.
Although this so-called public ownership, in Yan Wangqiu’s understanding, only belonged to his disciples and his clansmen, rather than the public ownership of the entire sect and its branches.
However, even this kind of parochial public ownership was considered advanced and selfless compared to what came later.
Because when the Nanhai Country era came, and Yan Wangqiu became its ruler, looking at the thousands of miles of land in the country, millions of common people, listening to them bow and call him their sovereign, and being hailed by the people as the eternal emperor, the once slightly-public spirited Yan Wangqiu had a complete shift in his mindset.
Just like the ancient Zen teachings transforming into a family dynasty.
Yan Wangqiu, like Yu the Great, wanted to pass on the world to his son and let his bloodline rule the Southsea for ten thousand years, forever as the monarch of Nanhai Country.
In a sense, this idea was indeed good and advanced.
After all, countries and sects are different, sects can operate through recommendations without hesitation, and whoever is strong can take the lead.
However, countries need not only strength but also stability.
Therefore, having the strongest power in the hands of the royal family could naturally be used as deterrence, coupled with a sense of moral justice, to stabilize the country.
Otherwise, the ruler would belong to the Yan family, while the Inborn Grandmaster would be someone else.
Having one person in control of the highest authority and another in control of the strongest power, the two most important elements – name and instrument – would ultimately lead to the emergence of a divided and competing situation.
At that time, awaiting Nanhai Country would be only war and destruction.
Either the name and instrument would unite, and the Yan family would be destroyed, with the strongest power of the Inborn Grandmaster reestablishing his political rule.
Or foreign forces would invade, taking advantage of the internal strife in the Nanhai Country, and the fate of the Yan family would be equally grim.
No matter which of the above occurs, neither Nanhai Country nor the Yan family would have a good outcome.
Don’t think this is an exaggeration.
At the beginning, when Yu the Great passed on the throne to Xia Qi, once Xia Qi was enthroned, the Youhu Clan opposed him and rebelled. In the end, Qi led his army to quell the uprising.
Later, when Qi’s son Taikang ascended the throne, he was even taken advantage of by the Eastern Yi Houyi, who captured the kingship and destroyed the Xia Dynasty’s reign.
Even Yu the Great, a man of virtue who tamed the floods, had someone stand up against him when his son tried to transform from a public to a family dynasty, and they even lost their country for a time.
What merits does Yan Wangqiu have?
Has he revitalized the Sect and made it flourish?
Or has he saved the Sect from danger and contributed to its survival and reconstruction?
Neither of the above applies.
On the contrary, he has been selfish and self-serving. He failed to cultivate a qualified successor to maintain the status of the Nanhai Sect as an Innate Great Sect.
Secondly, he did not save the Sect from danger, but instead allowed his disciples and clansmen to bleed the Sect dry. In the end, in order to escape responsibility, he personally destroyed the Sect.
He used the bones of the Nanhai Sect to create his own Nanhai Country.
With so many bad deeds attributed to Yan Wangqiu, and with his example of usurping power, it is impossible for him to trust that the Inborn Grandmaster he cultivates will not seize the family’s legacy after his death.
Of course, he cannot be at ease.
Not only Yan Wangqiu, but also the Yan family cannot be at ease.
So during the time of the Nanhai Sect, Yan Wangqiu still had his disciples and followers as potential candidates for Inborn status.
However, when it came to the Nanhai Country era, he was left only with his clansmen, or even his direct descendants, as the backup candidates.
This was because the transformation of the Nanhai Sect into a country had also encroached on the interests of Yan Wangqiu’s disciples.
Originally, his disciples had the chance to inherit the position of Sect Leader and become Inborn Grandmasters.
However, once Nanhai Country emerged, it became a natural law that fathers died and sons succeeded, and apart from Yan Wangqiu’s descendants, no one else had the qualifications to inherit the kingship.
Can those disciples who have been deprived of their opportunities be content?
As a result, another group of potential Inborn candidates had been eliminated.
After reducing it down to just a few dozen of Yan Wangqiu’s direct bloodline, how difficult it was to select a suitable Inborn candidate amongst them?
Not to mention that during the Nanhai Sect era, Yan Wangqiu’s descendants had already been screened once in this regard.
Those who failed to be selected were simply not qualified.
When the old man became the monarch, he spent night after night in feasting and debauchery, and in the year before his death, he had more than a dozen children. It was not necessarily all due to his lust for beauty.
More children meant more choice for a successor to pick an Inborn candidate from, which probably was Yan Wangqiu’s inner thoughts.
However, after all, he was not Lu Yuan.
He couldn’t use Immortal Technique and Spiritual Energy to directly cleanse his children’s souls, so relying on this widespread method of selecting a successor was ultimately too inefficient.
Moreover, the time was too short.
So within the past decade or so since the old man established the country, Nanhai Country has not been able to select a suitable Inborn successor from the Yan family’s bloodline.
Perhaps there was a suitable candidate within the Yan family, but they did not meet the interests of the Yan family elite. So even knowing that they were suitable, they chose not to cultivate them.
Once the seeds of infighting and suspicion are sown, it becomes like the whispers of the devil, difficult to cut off.
The Nanhai Country and the Yan family, established on an illegitimate foundation and with a rise accompanied by conspiracy and shamelessness, foreshadowed their destiny of destruction from the day they were founded.