Zhao Ning drank the tea in the cup in one go.

He put his thoughts and thoughts:

"You and I are both sons of Jiangmen, and it is an internal matter to die on the battlefield for the country, but no matter how strong Jiangmen is, he is only the backbone of the army, not a million army. Without an army composed of civilians, no matter how strong the strength of the Jiangmen is, no matter how many cultivators there are, in the face of a powerful foreign invasion, it can only play the effect of using the mantis arm as a car.

"But look at this prosperous world, what do you see?

"All I see is materialism, drunkenness.

"Compared with a few decades ago, there are indeed a lot of rich people now, BMW carved cars are full of incense, the city is full of pearls, there are countless people who wear gold and silver, painting boats and green buildings are blooming everywhere, businessmen are endless in the city, trucks are endless, scholars and scholars are splendid articles, and the tax revenue of the imperial court has reached an unprecedented height, it is really a colorful heaven and earth!

"But these, all of them, are rich people, what does it have to do with the common people? What do the common people get?

"Feng San and Feng Niu'er have lost the land on which they depend, Granny Liu and they are worse than dead, and Chen Yi and Wang Shu are living secretly in front of the powerful! Looking back for decades, have the common people not had a house to live in? Are they not well fed and clothed? But what about now? Look at it again, what has become of the common people!

"A house has to struggle all its life, and even die of exhaustion in heavy work, and people die of exhaustion without illness or starvation, what kind of world is this and how much pressure is it to survive? Even if it is a cow that cultivates the land, how many of them die of exhaustion in the field when they are young and middle-aged?

"When Granny Liu died on the cold street, did anyone stand up for her? What did people talk about when they talked about the tragic fate of Granny Liu's family? When someone was willing to deal with a bully like Skinny Hu'er, what did others think of him?

This is a world where people laugh at poverty and don't laugh at prostitutes, and a world where people can do anything for money, and everyone is envious of people who have a lot of money, and how many people care about morality and justice? When morality and justice are not praised, who will be willing to die on the battlefield for the sake of the righteousness of their family and country?

"On weekdays, everyone is righteous and awe-inspiring, saying that they are willing to sacrifice their lives for the country, they are just lip service, in order to show that they are very upright and tall, and the real thing is coming, how many people will rush forward desperately?

"The world is declining, the people's hearts are not ancient, how can such a dynasty and such a Qi people resist the invasion of the Tianyuan army that is strong and brave and die lightly? Such a peaceful and prosperous era, no matter how glamorous and beautiful, what is the use, it is just an illusion that will break and collapse when you touch it!"

Zhao Ning said these words painfully.

Prosperity, the people suffer, death, the people suffer, since ancient times. But the people also have a heart, and they will not suffer without knowing it.

In the past ten years of national war, Daqi has not stabilized the war situation, and it is not that there is no chance to make a comeback. Relying on the Yellow River moat, the Qi army stabilized once; relying on the Jianghuai defense line, the Qi army stabilized again; it was not until the Tianyuan army broke through into Shuzhong and captured Jingxiang, and then went down the river east to the hinterland south of the Yangtze River, that the Qi army was completely defeated.

At the beginning of the war, the defense line of the northern border of Daqi was indeed drummed down by the Tianyuan army, Yanping City was not defended, and the emperor moved the capital south. However, after cleaning up the situation on the south bank of the Yellow River, the Qi army won some battles, and also caused a lot of battle losses to the Tianyuan army.

The Beihu army is only one million in total, and this million people cannot continue to fight, after a big war, many young people have to go back to herd sheep, after all, the tribe is their foundation, the grassland also needs herdsmen, the Beihu army that has really been fighting, the number is not particularly large.

What's more, they also had to defend the occupied cities and control the territories under their jurisdiction, and after suffering a lot of losses in several battles, the first problem that Beihu faced was a serious shortage of troops.

However, Beihu not only solved the problem of insufficient troops, but also continued to move south after breaking through the Yellow River moat and suffered heavy losses, and successfully entered Shu at a greater cost, and then conquered the Jingxiang and Jianghuai defense lines, and finally swept the entire Great Qi!

What's even more terrifying is that during the ten-year national war with Daqi, Beihu continued to expand westward, attacked cities and plundered land, and achieved unimaginable results in battle.

People are the basis of war, so where did Beihu's troops come from?

The answer is actually quite simple.

There is only one answer.

Qi people.

Some of them are surrendered to the army, some are the powerful armed forces of the landlords, and some are purely recruited young and strong, after being incorporated by the Beihu Army or becoming the Beihu Army, they are called the "Green Battalion"!

In the second half of the National War, the Green Battalion Army was the main force fighting with the Qi Army!

At the end of the ten-year national war and the complete destruction of Great Qi, the strength of the Green Camp Army under the command of Tianyuan Khan was already three times that of the Northern Hu Army!

The Green Camp Army constitutes the cornerstone of Tianyuan Khan's control and rule over the Central Plains.

Zhao Ning remembered very well that before the Tianyuan Army broke through the Yellow River moat, the first batch of Green Camp troops had already appeared on the battlefield of the Yellow River. At that time, there were no ordinary people in the Green Camp Army, half of them were surrendered troops, and the other half were the armed forces of the big and powerful in Hebei, that is, the private army of the landlords and the rich.

It is not only these local tyrants and landlords who have been transformed into minions and pioneers of the Northern Hu Army who enjoy the benefits of prosperity and prosperity on weekdays, but also officials from many local prefectures and counties.

It was they who gave advice to the Beihu army on the one hand, and were willing to be pawns for the Beihu army on the other hand, which made the Qi army's battle extremely difficult, and more people surrendered to the Beihu army when the war was unfavorable.

These people, in peacetime, eat their brains full of fat and talk about morality, but in fact, they have long lost the concept of right and wrong, and all they care about is interests. When the Tianyuan Khan can give them benefits, they are the eagle dogs of the Tianyuan Khan. If you have milk, you are a mother, nothing more.

After the Northern Hu Army captured the Central Plains, because the national policy of Tianyuan Khan was not bad, more and more civilians who lived miserably and had no hope in life chose to join the Northern Hu Army one after another, which made the strength of the Green Camp Army expand rapidly!

The eight words "the world is declining, and the people's hearts are not ancient" are just a sigh and complaint of people of insight in peacetime, but when war comes, its destructive power is surprisingly huge.

But who is to blame for this phenomenon? Who is to blame for the corruption of the country, the people, and the decay of the dynasty? The first person to be responsible is the master of the dynasty, the emperor! The second person to blame is the officials who govern the world.

And what is the emperor doing at the moment? He is busy taking over the power of the family and strengthening the authority of the emperor. What are the officials doing? The court is vying for power and profit, and the localities are abusing power for personal gain. Their eyes do not see the bottom of the world, and their minds are not on the common people.

If we look at the imperial taxes, the wealth of the country, and the prosperity of the city, then this is indeed the best prosperous era in a hundred years, and even the height of the prosperous era that has not been reached by the predecessors. But if you want to look at people, people's hearts, and the living conditions of ordinary people, this is the end of the world!

Without a strong foreign enemy, the dynasty may be able to last for more than a hundred years, but once a foreign enemy as powerful as the Tianyuan army invades, the country will change hands only in an instant!

Great Qi lost the hearts of the people, and the Qi army became the enemy of the people in the end, so they all went to extinction in the end.

To save such a dynasty, to protect such a country, to fulfill the duties of the Zhao family in such a situation, and finally achieve the goal of protecting the Zhao family, protecting relatives, friends and himself, Zhao Ning has a lot to do. Improving the strength of your clan and allies is only a small part of it.

The rich and profit-hungry officials are unreliable, and the only people they can rely on are the people.

The people are simple, as long as the dynasty treats them well and gives them justice and dignity, even if they can't eat and drink, they can die for the country. Ten years of national war, the righteous warriors of the rivers and lakes represented by Yipinlou, as well as countless hot-blooded children, rushed to the battlefield one after another, in order to resist the alien race did not hesitate to serve the country, there are also some big families, landlords and landlords who destroyed their families to relieve difficulties, and died on the battlefield, which can be called the backbone of Qi people;

At the same time, the people are pragmatic, if the court is not good to them, then don't tell them anything righteous, someone can make their lives good, they don't care who is in charge. When the Green Battalion Army attacked the compatriots of the Qi people, they never had half of their hearts, and when they won the final victory of the war, they also sang indulgently in the sea of corpses and blood, shouting long live to the Tianyuan Khan Mountain.

Yang Jiani was silent for a long time, and finally thought clearly about Zhao Ning's thoughts, she looked at Zhao Ning's eyes and asked:

"You want to let everyone know that there is still a group of chivalrous and courageous and virtuous people in this world, who fight for justice without asking for anything in return, in order to make the wicked fear of the end and restrain their atrocities, so that the people can realize that justice and justice still exist, so as to achieve the effect of correcting people's hearts and changing the atmosphere of the world?"

She now understands the true meaning of that sentence: The people in Tsing Yi remove the evil knife, and I will show the righteousness in the world.

This is Zhao Ning's ambition and his cry.

This time, Zhao Ning's answer was very simple: "The rich officials only have interests in their eyes, and what the common people crave is fairness and morality." The demand for interests is endless, and I can't satisfy them, and I can do my best to help them fight for fairness and justice. ”

Yang Jiani said again: "But Yipinlou killed a lot of people. Whether it is a powerful bully or a government official, they all have considerable influence on the power of the dynasty. It won't be long before the imperial dynasty will dispatch officers and soldiers and cultivators to hunt down and encircle and suppress Yipinlou swordsmen in various places. Although what we do is righteous, we will still be purged by the dynasty as thieves and criminals. ”

Zhao Ning said: "Yes." ”

"You're not afraid?"

"I don't have to be afraid. ”

"Aren't you afraid of death?"

"Yipinlou can't die.

”

"Why can't you die?"

"A strong person naturally can't die. ”

"The strength of the officers and soldiers is not as strong as ours?"

"In the short term, it does. ”

"There are many masters in the imperial court, and they can go anywhere in a few months. ”

"Those below the middle stage of the Yuan Shen Realm are not to be worried. ”

"What about those above the middle stage of the Yuan Shen Realm?"

"The number is limited. ”

"But it's more than us. ”

"It's useless to have more, they can't move. ”

"Why can't you move?"

"The emperor is busy taking over the power of the family, and the magistrate's court is making a big move, and they need masters to sit in the center and stabilize the situation. ”

Yang Jiani took a deep breath, "How do you know so much about the Magistrate's Court?"

"What do I not understand?"

Yang Jiani stopped talking.

Although these words don't sound reasonable, when they come out of Zhao Ning's mouth, they seem to make a lot of sense.

The masters of the imperial court center could not move lightly, and there were few cultivators in the local government who were above the middle stage of the Yuan Shen Realm. And the Zhao family, the Yang family, and the middle stage masters of the Yuan Shen Realm of Yipinlou have a lot, plus the enemy is bright and dark, and they do have an advantage.

Yang Jiani quickly continued: "After a long time, there are too many killings, and the movement is too big, the court will not sit idly by, and our strength is limited after all." ”

Zhao Ning said: "Of course, it is not enough for us to rely on ourselves. ”

"You want to expand the strength of Yipinlou?"

"That's only part of the story. ”

"It's really not enough to rely on Yipinlou. ”

"Therefore, we have to send people to various places to get more righteous people involved in this matter. ”

"There is indeed no shortage of people who are willing to do such a thing as punishing evil and promoting good. ”

"Fortunately, the world is not incorrigibly bad. ”

"When there are more people and flowers bloom everywhere, a fashion will be formed. ”

"The fashion is a success, and the trend is inevitable. ”

"But people have good and evil, and if there are too many, they will be mixed, so that some people will take advantage of this to make waves and kill people for personal gain. ”

"It's a price to pay. ”

"You don't care?"

"I'll take care of some of it. ”

"What about the other part?"

"The government always has to do things. ”

“......”

Yang Jiani pondered silently for a moment, but still couldn't erase the worry in her heart: "After all, this is a peaceful and prosperous world, not a great chaos in the world, and the dynasty has strong control over the world." Yipinlou has done too much, and the imperial court will be furious sooner or later, and then the masters of Yanping City will be exhausted, and everything will be closed. ”

"Yes. ”

"You're still not afraid?"

"Don't be afraid. ”

"Why?"

"What you're talking about, it's going to happen in a few years. ”

"And how many years from now?"

"I only need a few years. ”

"A few years is enough?"

"Enough. ”

Yang Jiani groaned again.

Zhao Ning's so-called a few years is enough, which means that in a few years, the national war with Beihu will break out.

She couldn't help but ask, "Are you so sure about the scale and timing of the Beihu invasion?"

"It's a lot of brains and time, do you want to learn it?"

Yang Jiani waved her hand decisively, "What do I learn these for, it's enough to have you." ”

Zhao Ning picked up the tea bowl and drank tea.

Yang Jiani looked at him intently: "Using the way of Jianghu cultivators to punish evil and promote good, Kuang Gong justice deters evil, the influence is limited after all, and the time limit will not be long, once it stops, it will be useless." ”

"I don't know, but there's only so much I can do right now. If we do well in the next few years, it will be enough. As for the issue of timeliness, all I want is to survive the next large-scale invasion of Beihu. ”

"What happens after you survive this invasion? Will you try to solve the problem at the root of the problem?"

Yang Jiani asked.

Officials abusing power for personal gain, the rich oppressing civilians, landlords annexing land, and bullies are good, and this is not a problem that can be fundamentally solved by relying on chivalry and righteousness.

Zhao Ning did not answer.

Yang Jiani didn't ask again.

Just pick up the bowl and drink the tea.

This question is not easy to answer, and there is no need to answer it.

To completely reverse the trend of the world and the hearts of the people, change the face of the world, rectify the country's social system, redistribute the interests of the world, let the poor people have land and food, so that all the people can live and work in peace and contentment, how can a son of a family and the head of a family be able to do it?

In order to do this, we must first grasp the absolute power of the world.

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