Chapter 270: Ambition and Cause and Effect (Part II)
If you rob a wealthy merchant, you will also have to bear the risk of being wanted by the authorities, after all, how can a rich merchant not have a network and a protective umbrella? No lord will tolerate such a thing, after all, he will lose the regular taxes and filial piety paid by the rich merchant, and he will also be slapped in the face, proving that he is incompetent in the shelter place, and allowing thieves to take advantage of it.
Even if you break through the bodyguards, pry open the vault, dismantle the mechanism, and successfully grab the money, you may not have the life to spend it. As soon as a wanted bounty is posted, there is a message that someone wants their head, or at least betrays them.
While the official staff is not as dedicated as the police in the 21st century, more profit-seeking "civilians" will go a long way toward making up for this shortcoming.
And an ordinary person who few people know that he is rich and reclusive, maybe he will die when he dies, and no one will care at all.
And the simple poor bastard, although generally speaking, no one will want to get any benefits from him, robbing him once can't even earn back the money for food, and the robber is not a fool, so he will not do stupid things in vain.
But such a poor bastard has no strength to protect himself at all, and he doesn't need others to deal with him at all, maybe every time he encounters extreme weather and reduced food production, this guy will starve to death.
Or maybe he was accidentally infected, after all, he was easy to be tricked by the fact that he was not well fed and clothed, so he could only shrink at home, stiffening up in the hope that he could survive.
Drinking cold water, eating indigestible dry bread or drinking wheat cereal...... It's strange that you can heal from illness in this way. Maybe it will worsen, and a cold can turn into a fever and then die of a high fever.
Then, he died of illness and no one found his body for several months.
To put it bluntly, if you want to gain power, you have to be tainted with cause and effect, and from this point of view, moderate cause and effect is a good thing.
There are relatives and friends, a backstage, allies, their own industry, and their own subordinates, so that they can be truly powerful.
Even in the most unskilled robbery, more people have an advantage over fewer people.
And Luo Ming has many times more cause and effect than ordinary swordsmen, and along the way, His Highness Black Sun, Charlotte, Princess Victoria, ** Master Gandu and others have made deals with him, and now he has a comprehensive strength that is several times higher than that of ordinary swordsmen.
If the goddess of spring water hadn't supported her heirs to build a country at the beginning, and hadn't adapted her church into a more combat-ready form, and just guarded the spring water in the world to live, maybe not many people would have grabbed business with her, but in the same way, she would not have thought of breaking through the demigods after spending another 10,000 years of accumulation.
Maybe one day someone will want to pinch the soft persimmon and kill her - for example, a few legends who want to obtain divine power and divinity join forces and spend a period of time to prepare, and there is a chance of success.
Or another demigod can strike, or any of the five evil gods, and he can deliver a fatal blow to her.
Now, with the protection of the church and the state in the mortal world, and the huge power extracted from thousands of believers and the country itself, after becoming the peak of weak divine power, several legends scattered and fled in front of her may not be able to escape one, and the enemies of the demigod level will definitely be beaten by her, and any pillar of evil gods alone will fight with her one-on-one, even if she can win, she will definitely not be able to kill her.
Unless it is strong enough to be a third-rate plot that only appears in the creation god otherworldly tour, in this world, not touching cause and effect is looking for death......
This is a theorem in a normal world where energy is conserved, and if you want to overturn this theorem, either you invent a perpetual motion machine to continuously generate energy, or you can go to the kind of world where the free energy in the air is so abundant that it can't be absorbed endlessly, or it is the kind of idealistic world, where you can just explode and roar twice, and energy can appear out of thin air - if there is such a good place, let alone Luo Ming, even His Highness the Black Sun would like to run across the void of the sea of stars to enjoy happiness.
How is it possible that in classical society, Taoist temples and monasteries were basically landlords, with hundreds or thousands of acres of land and a number of tenants, they colluded with the local gentry to cheat money from them, or helped them guide public opinion in the name of religion, so that they could have money and grain to support so many monks and Taoists who were not engaged in production.
Aya listened to Luo Ming's words, just like his two masters, she couldn't help laughing: "The world is really strange and omnipresent, and people who uphold that kind of thinking are either liars who say one thing and do another, or they should have been eliminated a long time ago." There are still a lot of people on the earth who believe in this thing, and I really want to see it. ”
As she spoke, she pointed to the sky and the ground: "This world, heaven and earth, itself actually has a will, although this pan-consciousness may be very slow and slow, and basically only instinct, rarely shows the ability to think in complexity, and may not even be as good as an old snail, but there is no doubt that there is a will, and some people call this will the great mother goddess, and there is also this alias of the earth goddess, believing that it is the mother who gave birth to all living beings, all things, and even the gods."
The goddess of agriculture did not dare to claim to be the goddess of the earth, because she knew the measure and did not dare to impersonate.
But as far as I know, there are only three kinds of people who suffer the damnation of invaders from outside the world, internal thieves who dig into the corners of the world, and madmen who wreak havoc on the existing order of the world without rebuilding a new one.
and cause and effect, there is no half-dime relationship. ”
"Since there will be no heavenly tribulation linked to cause and effect, only human calamity remains. And in the face of such a thing as human robbery, it is impossible for one person to be compared with many people to support it together...... It's really thought-provoking. Luo Ming muttered to himself.
Fortunately, I was not poisoned by this kind of thinking...... Luo Ming is also sweating when he thinks about it now.
If you come all the way, you will uphold the strange idea of not touching cause and effect, you must be clear about everything, do not stay in one place for a long time so as not to provoke cause and effect, and decisively withdraw and run away when you encounter trouble...... Maybe he is still a high-level swordsman, and he is busy every day for cultivation resources and food and lodging expenses.
Of course, it is also possible that you have seen more ghosts on night walks, and instead of getting rid of trouble, you have caused more chases and kills, and you have died on the way.
Today's Luo Ming, and the imaginary Luo Ming, the strength in his hands is twenty or thirty times different!
In the future, I'm afraid that this gap will continue to be widened - not to mention anything else, his own fighting energy reserves have increased by more than fifty percent now compared to when he first became a sword master, and it may take two or three years for a lone ranger to think of this level.