Chapter 1554: The Age of Great Changes
This era is full of all kinds of contradictions, class contradictions, position contradictions, good and evil contradictions, technical and martial arts contradictions.
Bicycle and light power competitions have attracted a lot of attention, but no matter who wins, it won't change anything. Internal force is already a dispensable thing in the eyes of many people, no matter how good the light work is, it is only a person's ability, but the bicycle is something that most people can learn.
Zhang Cuishan watched two competitions, and suddenly felt that the martial arts he had learned for more than ten years seemed to be useless. In the past, those who practiced martial arts hoeed the strong and helped the weak, and supported justice, but in this era, they are a little hypocritical.
Yin Susu also saw that Zhang Cuishan had something on his mind, so he invited him to eat and drink tea together.
Zhang Cuishan happily went, and during the banquet, he also revealed his opinion: "What I have seen and heard since I came down the mountain has caused a great impact, the world has changed, and ordinary people can also use tools to compete with us ascetic martial artists, which is really appalling." ”
Yin Susu couldn't help but nodded: "That's true, but you don't have to worry too much, now those who practice martial arts still have a place, and cultivating internal strength can prolong life, which is incomparable to ordinary people." It can only be said that each has its own merits, and there is no superiority or inferiority. "She's very comforting.
When Zhang Cuishan heard this, he laughed: "But I think it's bad, Miss Yin is talented, and I'm ashamed." ”
Although the two have only known each other for a short time, they are already like old friends, and they agreed to meet again in a few days before parting.
Yin Susu returned to the Heavenly Eagle Sect, but found that a guest had come, and when he inquired, it turned out to be a visitor from Taiwan.
There are silkworms eating people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and there are other bastards in other places. Salt eats people, mines eat people, and so on and so forth.
Colonialism arose in Europe along with the Industrial Revolution, but that was because the countries of Europe were all small countries with few people and few people, so they had to expand.
In a large country like the United States, however, the Industrial Revolution liberated the productive forces through civil war, in which the capitalists of the North defeated the big farmers of the South to free the slaves bound by the land, and to obtain more workers, without colonizing abroad, to further squeeze the potential of the country.
In short, change comes with blood.
Now the Yuan Dynasty and Taiwan are taking different paths at the same time. Because of the vast land and large number of people in the Yuan Dynasty, the enclosure movement could be fully carried out internally, and the reasons for the enclosure were different in different regions, but they were all transformed to large-scale production, and the peasants and small workshops who owned the land were bound to be impacted.
Now Taiwan's target is a small country in Southeast Asia, but Taiwan is too short of soldiers, very, very short.
So Taiwan came to Mingjiao.
The Mingjiao from the Middle East developed rapidly within the Great Yuan, because many peasants did not want to be workers, so they were willing to continue to be peasants, and they wanted to get back the land, so they joined the Mingjiao to rebel against the imperial court.
There are people in Mingjiao, there is money in Taiwan, and they don't look down on the imperial court, so they naturally come together.
This time, Taiwan hopes that the Sky Eagle Sect can cooperate with them in attacking the Ryukyus, and Taiwan will pay enough commissions.
Yin Tianzheng is thinking about it, to be honest, he now comes out to start a business to know the difficulties of being a family, he used to be a Dharma king in Mingjiao and didn't have to worry about the food and clothing of the Mingjiao sect, and now he founded the Tianying Sect, although there are only a few hundred people, but people eat horses and chew every day is a white flower of silver flowing out, if there is no income is really difficult to support.
"The ambition of the lord of Guodao is not small, Ryukyu is a springboard between Fuso and Taiwan, if you capture Ryukyu, you can take Fuso on the top, and Korea on the west. "Yin Tian is the oldest of the four kings, the most experienced one, naturally knows the importance of Ryukyu, now Taiwan is trapped on an island, after all, it is difficult to do anything, but after the capture of Ryukyu is different, whether it is Fuso or North Korea is a very good target.
Especially North Korea, if it is taken, then the counterattack of the Yuan Dynasty will also take the first step.
The Taiwanese envoys said that they did not understand what was being said at all, and that they had just come to hire people from the Sky Eagle Sect to help.
Yin Tianzheng pondered for a moment: "In addition to gold and silver, I also want one thing, the Dragon Slaying Treasure Knife!" He is a martial arts person, so he is naturally very interested in the famous Guo Jing Sabre.
"The Dragon Slayer Knife has been lost, how can we take out this sword?" the messenger told the truth.
But Yin Tianzheng knew where the dragon slaying knife was, as long as the Taiwanese envoy helped get it. The Dragon Slayer Knife is now in the hands of a small gang that is not in the flow, and they are studying its secrets.
When the messenger heard this, it would be easy if this information was true.
Yin Susu heard her father agree to such an important thing, and said, "Dad, do we really want to go to sea to help?"
"Don't worry, Dad is measured. "It's a profitable thing, and there will be no mistakes. Yin Tianzheng said that he had earned the money.
"But Dad, why are you looking for a dragon slaying knife?" Times are different, and it would be too stupid to believe that the treasure knife slaying dragon commands the world.
"Dad's most admired in this life is Guo Jing's hero, but unfortunately I didn't see him, if I can get his saber, it will also be the end of my wish. Obviously, Yin Tianzheng didn't believe in the nonsense that commanded the world. Of course, it is unknown whether he really admires Guo Jing, maybe he just wants to control the treasure knife in his own hands, and he can use it to create chaos when he has to, so that he can make a profit.
"Daughter, you are talented and intelligent, and your grasp of the world's major events is much more accurate than your brother's, and I also know that in recent years, the development of strange and skillful skills has been like a flood of beasts, so I said that the bicycle, your brother did not believe in evil and went to the race, and finally lost, and now it is in a slump. Although Dad is one of the four protectors of Mingjiao, but Mingjiao is now leaderless, scattered, Dad's heart hurts, but there is nothing he can do. Dad is old, but you and your brother are still young, I want to buy some family business overseas, if the Central Plains changes, you can go to sea. ”
"Dad!" Hearing Yin Tianzheng's words, the daughter burst into tears, but still said strongly: "Dad, you are right, I see that the world will be chaotic sooner or later, and Taiwan will be relatively safe at that time, and it is indeed a good move to make friends with Taiwan." ”
At this time, the court of the Yuan Dynasty has also been overwhelmed by the endless rebellions in various places, in order to prevent such incidents from happening, the court is preparing to draw up a 'ban on martial arts', no one is allowed to practice martial arts, and no swords are allowed to be worn.
The court was also noisy, the military generals opposed it, and the civil officials supported it.
The reason for the opposition is: This is a one-size-fits-all policy, and it is extremely undesirable, and even the weakest Southern Song Dynasty has never practiced the ban on civilian martial arts, and the Yuan Dynasty established the country by force, is it not as good as the Southern Song Dynasty? Moreover, there are many patriotic people among the chivalrous people, and they practice martial arts to serve the emperor's family and the imperial court, and they must not chill the hearts of the warriors in the world. If the imperial court really gave an order, not to mention whether it could really be implemented to put an end to the rebellion, nine times out of ten it would not succeed, because the pre-Qin Dynasty had an example of collecting the world's soldiers, but in the end the Qin Dynasty was overthrown.
However, the civil officials believed that Yuan was not Qin, and Qin only collected weapons, but the reason why Yuan wanted to put an end to martial arts training was very simple, because the future was a world of machinery, and could martial arts training still resist muskets? As for the ban on martial arts affecting the patriotic heart of patriots, that is even more nonsense, is their patriotic heart just paper-paste? It is precisely because of patriotism that we must support the national policy more, and the purpose of the ban on martial arts is to maintain order, and the ancients all said that chivalry violates the ban with martial arts, so the prohibition of martial arts training is conducive to national stability and social development.
In the end, the 'ban on martial arts' was shelved, but everyone knew that this idea was already in the emperor's mind, and it could never disappear, if the emperor was really unhappy one day, then the ban on martial arts in the world was just a night of east wind.