Lu Bai thought about this and took a chopstick of fish, "I'm roasting on the fire, but what about your conscience?"
"conscience?"
Tang Zhu smiled disdainfully.
He stood up and asked Lu Bai, "How much does conscience weigh? How much money is conscience worth? Can conscience be eaten?"
He pointed to the outside of Zhao Prison, "Master Lu, you practitioners, you dignitaries, you people who have nothing to wear but food to eat, you probably don't know how many people outside are living in dire straits, right? They freeze when it's cold.
Death, death of illness during the plague, cannibalism when hungry, prostitution and sexual exploitation of children and women even when the weather is good. At this time, what are you people doing with their consciences! Your conscience can make them a meal!"
Tang Zhu stared at Lu Bai, "You are so advanced that you can make these unarmed people die miserably with just a pinch of your little finger. You wish you could live forever, but do you know that poor people can live longer than thirty-five? Now you keep talking about those children
Your life is also life, but where will you be when more people die?"
Tang Zhu clenched his fists, "You practice, you seek immortality, you firmly grasp the force of force, so that the people have no choice but to accept their fate and let you manipulate them. What can they do! They can only use their lives to fill the gap!"
He pointed outside, "Do you think those people are fighting for me? No, they are fighting for themselves! They also want to make their voices heard. They want to tell the powerful and tell them that they are not cattle and sheep to be slaughtered!
"
Then, Tang Zhu slumped, "This is their only chance to resist."
That means no resistance and no cooperation.
Lu Bai took a sip of wine and said, "With what you have done now, do you think you can save them from being slaughtered by others? What a joke, the pressure I am facing now is nothing more than the eight major factions deliberately suppressing me because of the rise of the Haoqi Sect, and that dog emperor
It’s just a matter of balancing power.”
He asked Tang Zhu, "As soon as I bow my head, do you believe it or not, your so-called boat gang, fish gang, tooth gang, charcoal gang, and granary can fall apart in an instant. The people around you can not be afraid of death, and the people around you can
We are not afraid of death, but in the face of absolute power, your so-called non-resistance and non-cooperation can only result in cooperation."
He said in a determined tone, "In this world, there is a shortage of three-legged stools, but there is no shortage of two-legged people. If one person doesn't want to be a sheep, just change him to another person. If two people don't want to be sheep, just change them to two. If a group of people don't want to be sheep, just change them."
Change a group."
Lu Bai approached Tang Zhu, "Believe it or not, as long as enough people die, sooner or later someone will kneel down and become a sheep and let them be slaughtered. Oh, no -"
Lu Bai shook his head.
"You don't even have to kill people. As long as this thing is delayed long enough, until the people exchange their children for cannibalism, long enough until your pig-killing business and the people in the boat gang are about to starve to death, someone will compromise and do it. Even if they are tough enough.
, those who are trying to survive will also fill their gaps.”
Lu Bai took a sip of the fish soup with a spoon, "What you call sacrificing the lives of some children in exchange for resources, power, and the protection of the inner study hall is all a bubble that will burst as soon as you poke it!"
"They can let one dog catch rabbits, or they can let another dog catch rabbits! The first wolf that became a dog found prey for people and resisted beast attacks. But have you ever seen someone treat them as a dog?
People saw it.”
Lu Bai looked at Tang Zhu, "Those people who are above you will not look down upon you because you sacrifice your life for them! You are a dog, you have always been a dog in their eyes, you can't become a human being! You can't please them, let alone
Let them treat you as a human being!"
"Only force, only force. If gods stand in the way, they will kill gods. If Buddha stands in the way, they will kill Buddha. It will make the practitioners in the world lower their eyebrows, make the gods in the sky bow their heads, poke a hole in the sky, and tell the thief God that I am not going to play anymore!"
Lu Bai narrowed his eyes slightly, "Only in this way, only in this way, will they treat you as a human being."
Tang Zhu fell silent.
He poured a glass of wine and was about to speak when Lu Bai said again: "You may think that I am fanciful. You are thinking about how a mortal body can compare with the gods, and how a pair of human hands can move the practitioners and gods and Buddhas all over the world. Let me do it.
Tell you--"
Lu Bai pointed to the north, "My mighty gate will be open to all disciples, no matter poor or rich, no matter male or female, young or old, as long as they have the potential to practice, they can enter my mountain gate. My mountain gate will have ten
Three gentlemen who are in the Ascension Realm teach their disciples the way to practice. The key is to enter the mountain gate and practice for a year without any fees! If you want to know which one is stronger, look for Haoqi in the north of the capital!"
After saying this, Lu Bai smacked his lips with satisfaction, feeling that the advertisement for recruiting disciples was pretty good.
Tang Zhu was also shocked by Lu Bai's words.
In the end, he shook his head dejectedly, "It sounds good, but it is difficult to do. How many families will let their children step into the money pit of spiritual practice? Even so, those practitioners who have come out of practice and occupy powerful positions are still lying on the common people.
It’s just the blood-sucking bugs on your body.”
"No no no!"
Lu Bai shook his finger and let Tang Zhu understand, "Power is a double-edged sword. The key depends on how to use it."
If it is used well, the world will be peaceful and the people will be prosperous and healthy; if it is used poorly, the people will have no life.
Now it is a bad use.
If used well, practitioners can exorcise demons and resist floods and other disasters, quell banditry, treat illnesses, and even explore the way of heaven and earth with the help of spiritual practice, bringing convenience to people's lives.
"The people feed them with food and herbs, and they provide shelter for the people. This is a good cycle." Lu Bai said.
His goal is to build such a world.
"My disciples will definitely have a future in these areas." Lu Bai said.
Tang Zhu asked Lu Bai to say something and didn't know what to say for a while.
He drank a glass of wine thoughtfully and asked: "Can your disciples change this? The eight major sects agree, the inner study hall agrees, and the emperor agrees? It's not enough for them to just lie down and suck blood."
Lu Bai said nothing.
He looked around and saw that Jin Yiwei was not here, so he sat in front of Tang Zhu and asked, "What do you think of the current cabinet?"
"Um?"
Tang Zhu didn't understand.
"The emperor has not been in court for several years, has he?" Lu Bai asked again.
Tang Zhu said nothing.
This is true. Although the emperor has not retreated to the level of doing nothing in the harem, it has been a long time since he last went to court. Most of the affairs of this large dynasty are handled by the cabinet, and then handed over to the palace for approval and seal.
Then issue it. In fact, it is not necessarily the emperor who approves this Zhubu, there are eunuchs who hold pens to do it for them.
As for sealing, it is done by the eunuch who holds the seal.
"In that case, why don't we just let the emperor do what he is doing now?" Lu Bai asked.
Tang Zhu still doesn't understand.
"Let the emperor continue to sit on the dragon throne as his mascot, and things will still be handled by the cabinet. There will be another agency responsible for the approval and sealing, and then the cabinet will execute it." Lu Bai smiled, "The only difference is that these people
The appointment of the emperor is not made by the emperor, but by the people - no matter who is the chief minister, at least he nominally works for the people and not for the emperor."
Tang Zhu opened his eyes wide.
This is a treasonous statement!
Even Tang Zhu has never thought of it this way.
Did he know that if these words were spread, it would definitely cause an uproar.
"I'm not afraid of this word getting out."
Lu Bai stood up and returned to his normal tone and voice, "Under this world, if there is no banished immortal coming, otherwise the emperor will not be able to do anything to me. But -"
Lu Bai chuckled, "It's just that the time has not come yet."
He clapped his hands, "Okay, I have told you enough. In fact, you are not of much use now. Mrs. He, you don't know her identity, and you don't know those cannibal eunuchs in the palace.
Know their names—"
"hehe."
Tang Zhu was frowning in thought, but he laughed when he heard Lu Bai's words, "None of those ancestors in the inner study hall are innocent. If you can catch them all, I will believe what you just said.
.”
"The evidence, the evidence! The evidence ends right here with you."
Lu Bai looked back at him, "If you give me evidence, believe it or not, I will catch them all when I get back."
Tang Zhu stopped talking.
Lu Bai was thoughtful.
He felt that Tang Zhu might have lied. Tang Zhu might have relevant evidence in his hand, and he might not know the identity of Mrs. He.
Lu Bai wanted to say a few words, trying to pry open Tang Zhu's mouth, when footsteps came from outside.
Lu Bai stopped.
He looked back and saw that it was his disciple.
"Master, there is an urgent letter from Senior Sister." The disciple said outside the cell and handed the letter in.
Lu Bai took it and glanced at it. His expression changed from initial confusion to seriousness, and finally he cast his eyes on Tang Zhu.
He waved his hand to ask his disciples to leave, and then stood condescendingly in front of Tang Zhu, "Isn't this the method you once said to replace the kidnapping of children into the palace?"
He threw the letter to Tang Zhu.
What Wanger mentioned in the letter was Yunshuicheng.
He sent women thousands of miles to an isolated island and allowed these women to give birth to many children. The children were taken away by people of different identities as soon as they were born. Apart from the alternative method mentioned by Tang Zhu, Lu Bai could not think of anything else that would make Shi
My family has spent so much money on it.
At the same time, Lu Bai also solved something that had always lingered in his mind and puzzled him, that is, where did the Shi family get the money to give Jian Zhai, allowing the Shi family to stand out overnight and become Jian Zhai's secular sect in the world.
Now he knows.
Tang Zhu emptied the emperor's inner treasury, so of course he had money for the Shi family to give to Jianzhai to stand out.
Lu Bai knelt down and looked at Tang Zhu with a sneer, "I have been focusing on the case of the Ogre. If this letter hadn't reminded me, I almost forgot that you, the mastermind behind the scenes, emptied the emperor's inner treasury——"
Lu Bai thought about it for a moment and said, "For the time being, you can evacuate it quietly."
There are also many doubts about this case.
If the inner treasury is stolen, the inner study hall will undoubtedly bear a great responsibility.
However, when someone assassinated Lu Bai in the inner study hall and asked Lu Bai to recruit the Dionysus, the emperor just made Bai the eunuch the master of the inner study hall and started to clean up the inner study hall. However, after such a long time, Bai Bai
The big eunuch's big plank was not knocked down at all. It can be said that the wind is loud and the rain is small.
This is very abnormal.
You know, this emperor is a notoriously greedy emperor.
Not mentioning the doubts here, just mentioning the Shi family and Zhuyingtang, the names here are very thought-provoking, "Isn't this a deal between you? You gave the money to the Shi family to help the Shi family become the secular sect of Jianzhai.
The price the Shi family paid was to do Yunshuicheng's business."
"wrong."
Lu Bai shook his head again, "There is also the matter of abducting women from the people in the name of the emperor."
Hancheng is not an isolated island.
There are Jinyiwei, Dongchang and Xichang in the city, but the Shi family can openly use the emperor's name to do this despicable thing. Lu Bai doesn't believe that there is no reason for this.
"Now let me stroke it."
Lu Bai raised his fingers and said, "The Shi family, the Bamboo Shadow Hall, the inner study hall, the ministers, the Jianghu, and the harem are almost all taken up. This is by no means you using the inner study hall to connect them together, this is still the Madam He who is here
Can you handle it with one hand?"
"So, this Madam Crane is influential in the inner study hall and can also be a leader among ministers——"
Lu Bai frowned. If Mrs. He was in the palace, it could explain her influence in the inner study hall. But how could a woman in the harem contact the ministers? She was not a eunuch. Eunuchs occasionally had the opportunity to contact ministers.