In fact, the people's requirements are very simple.
Having enough to eat, warm clothes and a place to live can satisfy most people.
But if there is nothing to eat or a place to live, many people will take desperate measures.
In order to survive, to survive for my wife, children and mother.
Water can carry a boat and also capsize it.
In the capital city, heavy snow is falling,
Some people starved to death, froze to death, were homeless, and even sold their children and daughters just for a bite to eat.
Some people have wine pools and meat forests, singing and dancing every night,
This is how the world is, and there is no fairness or justice.
It is impossible to expect the people to abide by the law and listen to the teachings in this way.
For the sake of public security, the capital immediately implemented strict laws.
In the capital city, the number of thieves is defined as ten taels. Those who steal less than ten taels will have their hands chopped off, and those who steal more than ten taels will be killed!
Those who pick fights and cause trouble in the street will be punished with two hundred sticks.
With two hundred sticks, even a tiger can be beaten to the point where it cannot get up. Ordinary people will suffer the same result - death.
Anyone who dares to slander the imperial court or discuss the imperial government will have his or her tongue cut off.
Armed robber, kill!
…
The activities of the internal guards of Baiqisi have become more frequent than ever before.
For a time, the capital was in turmoil!
It is not only the common people who are afraid, but also the ministers in the court.
In less than a month, the emperor had beheaded forty-two officials of all sizes in the capital. On average, at least one minister was beheaded every day.
So much so that some officials took the initiative to resign and return home.
They serve as officials in the capital for the sake of their future and prosperity, not for the fear of war and their lives.
It's a pity that some officials who have become official have never been able to return to their hometowns and meet their fellow villagers and elders as they wished.
Not long after they left the capital, they were robbed and killed by a group of men in black.
The Imperial Court's Criminal Department and the Baiqisi Internal Guards investigated for several days but found no clues at all.
Qin Tian Jian, Star Observation Deck in Beijing.
The cold wind was biting, and the snowflakes were swirling and drifting over. Once they got closer, they were blocked by an invisible barrier.
A middle-aged Taoist priest wearing a Taoist robe was drinking tea here.
"Hey young."
After a few sighs, an old man wearing purple official robes with white beard and hair came up to the stargazing platform.
"This place is too high."
The old man sat down and breathed heavily. The man poured him a cup of tea.
"You've been watching the sky here every day, but have you ever figured out when the snow will stop? It's been snowing for ten consecutive days. There are nearly three feet of snow in the capital, and more than a thousand people freeze to death every day."
"It will rain for ten more days."
"Ten more days? At least half of the people in the capital will die. How many people will die in Guanzhong nearby?"
"This is God's will." The Taoist said calmly.
"God's will? Oh, those two words are there again. If God doesn't let the people live, the people will rebel!" The old man sighed.
"Today, a discount came up below. Guess what it is?"
"I have never participated in the political affairs of the court."
"I know, I said, listen, there are rumors in southern Yunnan that there is purple energy rising in Rongcheng, and the energy turns into dragons and tigers. Only two of the Baiqisi internal guards who went to investigate came back alive."
The Taoist on the side looked calm and drank tea as usual.
"That one is the younger brother of the current Holy Emperor!" The old man took a sip of tea and calmed down.
"Aren't you afraid of being on the list of gods?" He stared at the Taoist sitting in front of him.
"Your Majesty lets me go up, so I will go up." The Taoist said calmly.
"Oh, you can see clearly." The old man in purple robe said with a smile after hearing this.
"Seeing that the New Year is approaching, His Majesty has issued a decree to allow those princes who have been serving vassal affairs in various places to return to Beijing for reunion."
"That is His Majesty's family matter."
"But I think those princes may not come back. If they don't come, hey..."
With a flutter, a golden wing fell on the stone shelf beside the observatory. It looked a little tired.
"This snow covered at least two thousand miles." The Taoist said witheringly, staring at the golden wing.
"Two thousand miles? How many people will die?" The old man beside him sighed.
The Taoist held the tea cup and looked at the falling snowflakes.
"Can't you cast a spell to stop the snow?"
"It's snowing two thousand miles away. How much magical power is required to stop the snow? Even the legendary Buddha, I'm afraid the Heavenly Lord doesn't have this kind of magic power, right?"
The Taoist's tone was very calm from beginning to end. It seemed that the political affairs of the imperial court and the life and death of the people in the world really had nothing to do with him.
"Well, I'm already old, and I don't know how long I can live." The old man sighed again.
"Come here to trick me again?" The Taoist poured a cup of tea for the old man.
"The sky is in chaos, and so is the energy. The only constant is that everything between heaven and earth is changing all the time." The Taoist looked at the heavy snowfall outside.
"The way of heaven is not independent of human will. You can only comply with it and cannot disobey it."
Well, the old man looked up at the sky.
"But isn't the practice itself going against nature?"
"The way of heaven does not prohibit practice, but depends on how to practice. What's more, there are also heavenly tribulations, which themselves are a test of practice."
"The foreign tribes from northern Xinjiang sent troops to invade the pass and plundered, destroying three cities in a row. The reports below are also reporting disaster information one after another."
"It's useless to tell me this," the Taoist said calmly.
"I'm complaining to you, and I can only say some things to you. I don't dare to say this to others, for fear that I will be invited to tea by the inner guards, and I will lose my tongue when I come out."
"Who dares to invite you to tea when you are the Prime Minister?" the Taoist said with a smile.
"That's hard to say!" The old man smiled and waved his hand.
"Next game?"
"Let's wait another day. It's time for you to leave," the Taoist said.
Just after saying this, a bell rang outside.
The old man's expression changed drastically after hearing this. The bell came from the palace. If the bell rang at this time, something big must have happened!
The old man left in a hurry.
Pulala,
As soon as the old man left, the golden-winged figure standing on the stone shelf fluttered its wings a few times and fell to the ground. Then the spiritual light on its body shone and grew bigger instantly.
After a while, he turned into a person, a distracted and handsome young man.
"Master."
"how?"
"The disciples followed Master's instructions and searched along the way, but found no trace of that person. There was indeed a vision coming from the sky in West Kunlun.
It is said that someone once saw a golden door on the clouds in mid-air."
"Tianmen?" The Taoist was slightly startled after hearing this.
"It's been a hard journey, let's go down and rest."
"Disciple resigns."
The disciple left, and only the Taoist was left on the observatory. He stood here alone, looking at the heavy snowfall outside in trance.
In the imperial palace of the capital,
On the dragon chair, the emperor was wearing a crown and a dragon robe, standing high above, looking down at the important ministers below.
The courtiers lined up on both sides didn't even dare to show their anger.
"Yan Qing." The emperor on the dragon throne spoke.
"My lords, I have just received news that the King of Zhennan sealed the territory and split the land, proclaimed himself king, and named the Kingdom of Dian."
As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the entire hall instantly stopped.
No one spoke, no one moved, everyone seemed to be deaf or dumb.
Although I knew this would happen sooner or later, I was still shocked when I heard it now.
"Dian Kingdom, this is a good name. He wants to overthrow the imperial power and Dayong!"
No one took the initiative to speak. Xiao Guang, who was aloof, stared at the ministers below.
"Xu Aiqing?"
"Going back to the emperor, what King Zhennan did was really treasonous and unjust, and he should have sent troops to conquer it, but he held the military power of a state.
If you want to send troops to suppress, you need to send troops from Jingzhou or Liangzhou, which requires the cooperation of the two princes, King Liang and King Chu.
We still need to mobilize grain and grass, and we need the Ministry of Household Affairs to allocate money and grain." The Minister of War said.
At this time, among the ministers on both sides, an official wearing a purple robe frowned, with sweat on his forehead.
While the Minister of War was speaking, he carefully observed the reaction of the emperor sitting on the dragon throne.
I saw Xiao Guang sitting on it, motionless, like a statue.
The Minister of War quickly stopped reporting.
He knew very well that under the current situation, the Ministry of War was simply unable to send troops to encircle and suppress the enemy.
How can we fight a war without money or food?
What's more, it's winter, with ice and snow, so it's not appropriate to send troops from Guanzhong. But if we send troops from Liangzhou and Jingzhou, will the two princes listen?
Ultimately, this is just an internal matter within their royal family.
Xiao Guang, who was sitting on the dragon chair, waved his hand, and the Minister of War quickly stepped back and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
This level has been passed.
For a moment, the hall was silent. No one knew what the emperor sitting on the dragon throne was thinking.
The world is in chaos, and it will not last for a day. The general trend of the world cannot be controlled by people like them.
Xiao Guang sat on the dragon chair and looked down at the ministers below.
These are all chess pieces, the chess pieces in his hands, at his mercy. Life and death are just a matter of his thoughts.
He is the emperor of Dayong and a chess player. He uses heaven and earth as the chessboard and all things as chess pieces.
His opponent is Tian!
"The king of Chu was ordered to put down the rebellion, and the Ministry of Household Affairs allocated silver. Zhan Wushuang stayed."
After saying that, he waved his hand.
Withdraw from the court,
The eunuch shouted, and all the ministers lined up and left the hall.
The Minister of Household Affairs and the two ministers had deathly expressions on their faces.
"The Ministry of Accounts allocates silver coins, but there is no silver coins left to adjust? Wouldn't this cost their lives?"
After leaving the main hall and returning to the household department, the three of them gathered together.
"Sir, the Ministry of Revenue is an empty shell now, and there is no money or food to use at all!" the right servant said anxiously.
"Isn't it true? There have been floods and droughts in successive years, and the Ministry of Household Affairs has to provide money and grain for disaster relief. The borders are also unstable, and we have been fighting for years.
In recent years, the food harvest has been poor and the house has been unable to get out. This year we encountered a snowstorm and the Ministry of Household Affairs has been unable to get out. We really have no money or food."
"Of course I know, but His Majesty has spoken, and we have to find a way. The last time the person who violated the Holy Will in the court was Hong Yushi,
His grave should be overgrown with weeds now, do you want to imitate him?"
"But where does the money come from, sir?"
"Are there any vacancies down there?"
"It has been sold out a long time ago, and all official positions in ten years will be sold out!"
…
In the palace, in the main hall,
There were only three people left, Emperor Xiao Guang, an old eunuch, and a general wearing armor.
"Chengbo, go to southern Yunnan and bring Xiao Ren's head back."
"Go to Wanbao Pavilion and pick any magic weapon you want."
"As commanded."
The man wearing armor turned and left.
Xiao Guang's fingers tapped lightly on the dragon chair.
"Tell me, how will Xiao Ren react when he sees him?"
"Well, you should be surprised, right?"
"Know what to do?"
"I will make arrangements now. I will let them know the news at the right time and give them a surprise."
Xiao Guang waved his hand, and the old eunuch turned and left. In the vast hall, Xiao Guang sat alone on the dragon chair.
A true loner,
Thousands of miles away, in the Qinchuan River, there were also snowflakes floating in the sky. They were not very big and made a lot of noise.
In the cave, five colors of divine light flow,
Wang Zhe silently realized the mystery contained in the five innate elements, which are mutually reinforcing and inhibiting each other.
Almost everything in the world is within the five elements.
He opened a door and saw a brand new world. He had a great time swimming in it and enjoyed the excitement during the exploration.
Gold, sharp and strong, can become a diamond and is indestructible.
The trees are full of vitality, and the flowers bloom instantly,
Water nourishes all things,
Fire, burn, destroy, illuminate all directions,
Soil, the earth carries everything,
In the past, Zhenjun Erlang practiced the Eighty-nine Mysterious Techniques, and from them he realized various wonderful methods, seventy-two transformations, a diamond that was indestructible, the soul left the body, and the incarnations outside the body were all in it.
At this time, Wang Zhe also realized various wonderful uses from this innate five-element magical power.
He even had a feeling that he could use these innate five elements to exert a considerable part of the thirty-six heavenly powers.
shocking the mountains and the earth,
Draw rivers into land,
Five Elements Great Escape,
Draw rivers into land,
Turn the ground into steel
.......
As time goes by, it seems that he can do all these things if he wants to.
Use the innate to transform the acquired, and use the five elements to transform all things.
As soon as Wang Zhe sat in the cave, he forgot about the time outside the mountain.
I meditate on the wonderful Dharma day and night,
No matter whether it is spring or autumn or winter outside,
On this day, with a pop, a man fell from the sky, wearing armor and stomach, and covered in blood.
Upon hearing the sound, Laifu stepped forward to look at him, raised his paws and scratched his face twice. The man didn't react at all and passed out.
At this time, it was raining in the sky, but it turned into ice when it fell on the man's body, and soon he turned into a withered body of ice.
Laifu looked at this man, then turned to look at the cave that was emitting colorful divine light. He thought about it and decided not to care about this man's life or death.
I returned to the entrance of the cave and lay down.
It rained all day, and the man was frozen into an ice pimple.
Suddenly, a ray of light floated out from the cave, like a stream of fire, and fell on the frozen man. After a while, the ice on the man's body melted.
Another ray of blue light flew out of the cave and disappeared into his body.
After a while, the man's fingers moved and he woke up.
Get up, look up and look around, look at the native dog in front of you, look at Wang Zhe coming out of the cave,
He didn't say anything, he just sat there blankly, as if he was in a daze.
Woah, Laifu seems unhappy.
When Wang Zhe saw him like this, he knew that he must have been strongly stimulated.
I didn’t persuade him or care about him, I just let him stay outside.
This stay lasted for three days, sitting there like a stone withered,
"It's not a solution for you to just sit and stare like this all the time. It won't solve the problem."
The man raised his head and glanced at Wang Zhe, then lowered his head.