When Song Xuan and Zhou Zhiruo left Hangzhou City, light rain began to fall from the sky again.
The aroma of earthy fragrance blows on your face in the wind and rain, which is cool and makes you feel particularly clear.
The help of the wealthy Hu family made Song Xuan feel very good. With such a rich man, he would no longer have to worry about money and food in the next few years.
Zhou Zhiruo, on the other hand, felt somewhat uneasy and raised questions.
"Brother, is Hu Qian really reliable? What if we leave and he reports to the court that you are rebelling, will this cause trouble?
The words that senior brother said before about expelling the Tartars and restoring China made Zhiruo's blood boil with excitement. But I think that Hu Qian, although he was also motivated, was not really moved by your ambition, senior brother!
I always feel like this kind of person is a bit unreliable!"
Song Xuan smiled and said: "Actually, you are right. Hu Qian is essentially a speculator. The interests of his family and country are far less important to him than the interests of his Hu family."
"Then, senior brother, you still want to accept his surrender? You also told him your ambitions. Are you really not afraid that he will betray you?"
"This, I'm really not afraid!"
Song Xuan smiled and said, "Hu Qian is a smart man, a smart man who focuses on profit, so everything he does is just to maximize profits!
This kind of person is actually easier to control.
Because looking at the entire world, there is no one else but me who can bring the greatest benefit to the Hu family!"
Seeing that Zhou Zhiruo still seemed a little confused, Song Xuan continued: "The Hu family's power in Jiangnan has reached its limit. If you want to go further, it is basically impossible unless the Hu family rebels!
It’s not that I look down on him. If the Hu family wanted to rebel, they probably wouldn’t be able to make waves.
Hu Qian is aware of this matter, so in this case, if Hu Qian is ambitious, he must find a suitable leader and use the entire Hu family as a bargaining chip to find a good future for his family.
And Song Xuan, who is young, capable, has the ambition to compete in the world, and has the support of a martial arts sect behind him, is the best choice he can encounter.
As for what you are worried about, reporting me to Yuan Ting for rebellion."
Having said this, Song Xuan couldn't help but laugh a few times, "Not to mention that by doing this, you have completely offended my Wudang sect, and the entire Hu family will be hunted down by the big sect afterwards.
Even if we don’t mention these, Hu Qian wouldn’t dare!”
Song Xuan smiled a little deeply and said calmly: "In this world, people are always picky. Whether I want to rebel or not is not important. What is important is that we, the big martial arts sects, are not easy to mess with!"
Decades after the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, the six major sects and the Mingjiao still exist. You wouldn't think it was because the Yuan court was soft-hearted and unwilling to disturb the Jianghu forces, right?
They have moved, and they have moved more than a few times, but every time they have failed, and in the end they have acquiesced in the existence of these so-called martial arts sects."
Having said this, Song Xuan looked at Zhou Zhiruo and asked: "You said, with the greedy temperament of the Mongolian royal family, when they can't touch my Wudang sect, the Hu family, a rich whistleblower with a fortune of tens of millions,
How will they arrange it?"
A hint of understanding appeared on Zhou Zhiruo's face as smooth as water, "Brother, Zhiruo will understand when you say this. It's better that Hu Qian doesn't report you. If he reports you for treason, they will definitely be the first to suffer misfortune.
Maybe they will be labeled as colluding and treasonous, and their families will be confiscated and their families will be exterminated!"
Song Xuan nodded and said with a smile: "Replace the word "maybe" with "certainty"! Confiscating their homes and annihilating their clans is their inevitable end!
"So, I like to cooperate with smart people. I can see the consequences, and Hu Qian can also see it. I don't need to explain what can and cannot be done!"
Zhou Zhiruo pursed her lips and said in a low voice: "Originally, I thought the world of martial arts was about fighting and killing with swords, swords, and shadows, but as I followed my senior brother, I realized that what I thought was too simple."
Song Xuan looked up at the sky, stretched out his palms, and the internal energy of Nine Suns in his palms turned into a vortex, sucking in the rainwater around him and gathering it in his palms, like a small water dragon that was constantly twisting its body.
"The battles among warriors are all rivers and lakes, and the battles all over the world are also all rivers and lakes. As long as there are people, the whole world is all rivers and lakes.
In this world, there has never been any distinction between temples and rivers and lakes.
Temples are both rivers and lakes, rivers and lakes, and they also exist in temples!”
After he finished speaking, he flicked his finger, and the small water dragon in his palm was like a silver-white sharp arrow, which shot out of the air in an instant and pierced the trunk of an ancient tree on the roadside.
Zhou Zhiruo said with envy: "Senior brother, your control of internal power is truly superb!"
Song Xuan shook his head and said: "It's just some little tricks. If you see the methods of my great master Zhang Sanfeng, then you will understand what it means to be shocking!"
Hearing this, Zhou Zhiruo's eyes suddenly showed some expectation. As for what she was expecting, she didn't know.
After leaving Hangzhou, the two of them stopped wasting time and galloped all the way towards the border of Wudang Mountain.
After leaving the boundary between Suzhou and Hangzhou, and away from the prosperous big city, what came into their sight was the most realistic situation of the Yuan Dynasty's rule.
Not to mention that it's a thousand miles away from people, but it's almost there.
When the Mongols invaded the Central Plains and then destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty and unified the south of the Yangtze River, the number of people they killed was simply incalculable.
The Mongolian army has always been brutal and loves to massacre cities. Many state capitals were directly wiped out. Even now, decades later, many areas are still sparsely populated and have become no man's land.
Along the way, Song Xuan and Zhou Zhiruo would hardly meet many people in the wild mountain villages unless they were specifically traveling to towns.
Occasionally I encountered a few houses, but most of them were empty. Even if there were people, most of them died at home, either from starvation or being hacked to death.
This era is an era where barbarism flourishes and law and order collapse.
Hunger, disease, banditry, war, any of them can easily kill ordinary people.
For example, at this moment, the two of them stopped on the official road and looked at the corpses lying in the grass on the roadside. Their bodies were covered with wounds.
It can be seen that this is probably a family who went out to escape. As a result, they were unlucky and encountered bandits or soldiers. They were killed and their property was stolen.
"Wow wow."
At this moment, a cry was heard in the grass. Song Xuan got off his horse and walked towards the place where the cry was coming.
There was a female corpse there. Song Xuan turned the corpse over, only to find that underneath the corpse, there was a thin baby girl about one year old protected.
The baby girl's body was already stained red with blood. Perhaps she was too hungry. She was sticking out her tongue and sucking the blood on her fingers with difficulty.
After noticing Song Xuan's figure, the baby girl stopped crying, instead smiled, stretched out her finger, and shook it at him.
Although he couldn't speak, Song Xuan understood the meaning.
Are you hungry?
Do you want to take a lick too?
Seeing this scene, Zhou Zhiruo's face turned pale.
Song Xuan, on the other hand, subconsciously clenched his fists, his whole body tensed, and he seemed to be holding back hatred between his teeth.
"Junior sister, now, do you understand why I have to rebel?!"