Chapter 237: Go with your heart
Looking at Mu Qingyun, who was running wildly towards Shouzhou City, Mu Junhe, who was holding a long sword, smiled bitterly and shook his head.
"Others laugh at me for being crazy, I laugh at others for not being able to see through it, the power in the world has passed, and plain and healthy is true."
"Senior brother, how many people in this world can really see through this wealth and power?" Li Yi couldn't help but comfort Mu Junhe when he saw him so emotional.
"Think about it, in fact, the real free and easy is still the master and his old man, he saw through the red dust of this world and retreated to the mountains and forests when he was in his prime, but he still lived a chic and comfortable life with coarse tea and light food every day." Mu Junhe looked at the smoke-billowing Huainan Mansion and the large number of houses around the palace, and couldn't help but think of the Taijizi who was lying on the bamboo chair and was at ease.
Thinking that he was lucky enough to worship the master under the Guigu Sect at the beginning, teaching various knowledge and martial arts, which helped him greatly broaden his horizons, and made them understand that there are many things worth pursuing in this world in addition to glory, wealth, power, and status.
At one point, he also thought of bowing to the royal family in exchange for the throne that his grandfather had lost. In his mind, as long as he reasonably used the knowledge taught to him by his master, even if he couldn't rank in the ninety-five, he could become the strongest vassal king in Jiuqing.
At that time, his master Tai Jizi clearly saw his thoughts, so he gave him a sword and told him to go down the mountain and travel for half a year.
During this period, he must not reveal his royal bloodline, and at the same time, he must continue to temper himself. And when he came down the mountain, he realized the difficulty of this world, and most of the people were struggling in this difficult world.
Seeing that the people were suffering from hunger and cold because of the famine, he once took out all his possessions and food to give to the people.
But his meager possessions could not feed even the children of the victims. What made him even more desperate was that when he distributed the food he had bought to the children, the hungry people rushed to knock him down and quickly snatched all the food he had prepared for the children.
Even though he was strong in martial arts, he didn't even have the slightest chance to fight back in front of the hungry victims, because there were too many people rushing towards him at that time.
What made him even more painful was that many victims were trampled to death in the process of scrambling, including the children he originally wanted to rescue.
At that moment, Mu Junhe felt guilty, and he thought that if he hadn't wanted to distribute food to the children, those children would not have been trampled to death by the crowd.
Although they should still starve to death in the final solution, at least that has nothing to do with them, and they don't have to bear the condemnation of their conscience.
Since then, he has learned that he cannot help the people affected by the disaster on his own, and that even one of his inadvertent compassions can lead to death.
Later, after a period of observation, he found that these victims were not only reduced to the point of beasts because of natural disasters, but also man-made disasters under the surface of natural disasters, and this man-made disasters were the local tyrants and gentry everywhere, and the corrupt officials and corrupt officials were endlessly oppressed.
So he resolutely aimed the long sword in his hand at those corrupt officials and gentry and tyrants.
After killing wave after wave, his fame grew, and at the same time, more and more officers and soldiers pursued him.
But in the end, Mu Junhe strangely found that although he had killed one corrupt official and another big family, the expected improvement in the lives of the victims did not happen.
Even the lives of the victims have become more difficult. Only then did he realize that no matter how many corrupt officials and gentry he killed, it would be useless.
Because these damned corrupt officials and gentry and leeks in the fields generally cut off a stubble and a stubble will grow, and it will go on and on.
And the common people will always be pressed to the bottom, at the mercy of the new officials and gentry.
Subsequently, the disheartened Mu Junhe returned to the mountain after suffering for half a year at the bottom of the mountain. And as soon as he returned to the mountain, he knelt down in front of Tai Jizi and asked.
"Master, how can I save the poor people in this world?" Regarding the question raised by Mu Junhe, Tai Jizi just smiled faintly and asked rhetorically.
"Why do you want to save the people of this world?" At that time, Mu Junhe didn't think about it and immediately replied.
"Because the people of this world are living too hard!" After hearing this, Taijiko just smiled faintly and asked again.
"Why do you want to save the people of this world?" Taijizi's question was exactly the same as the previous one, so Mu Junhe was a little confused when he heard it.
"Just now you said that the people of the world are suffering too much, so you want to save them, then now you think carefully about why you want to save them, this time you ask your own heart." Tai Jizi tapped Mu Junhe's heart with a whisk and said.
Mu Junhe also understood what Tai Jizi meant, so he pondered for a moment and then spoke.
"Master, I want to save them because I have compassion and don't want to see them suffer, I really can't watch so many people starve to death." Mu Junhe gave his own answer.
"Compassion, can't watch the people starve to death, so you are trying to calm your own heart?" Mu Junhe really didn't expect his master to say this.
But Mu Junhe was a little overwhelmed, because the truth was the same as what his master Tai Jizi said.
In fact, everything he did from the beginning was to calm his mind and satisfy his ridiculous compassion.
"Okay, now let's not talk about whether you are doing this to satisfy your own peace of mind more, or whether you really have the world in mind and are willing to do your best for the common people, then how do you plan to help the people of the world completely solve the famine problem?" Tai Jizi saw that Mu Junhe didn't know how to answer, so he asked again.
This time, Mu Junhe was stunned again.
"Master, this is exactly the question that the apprentice wants to ask you!" Mu Junhe felt that Tai Jizi's question was obviously perfunctory.
"I think your travel in the past six months has also made you know that it is not possible for one person or a few people to save these victims, how do you think you can save them?" Taijizi guided Mu Junhe to think.
"Master, do you mean that if you want to solve these problems, you have to go to the government?" Thinking that one person or a group of people could not solve these problems, Mu Junhe immediately thought of the government.
This is because if we want to help these victims on a large scale, we must do so through the government.
"But you must know that the government is one of the main culprits in the current situation!" Tai Jizi's words completely denied Mu Junhe's statement.
In fact, things are indeed as Tai Jizi said, it is precisely because of the corruption of the government that corrupt officials and corrupt officials are rampant that the people are hungry and clothed.
If you want to count on them to solve these problems, I am afraid that the sun will come out of the west. Then Mu Junhe thought about it for a long time, but in the end he didn't come up with an answer.
Seeing this, Tai Jizi said twelve words to Mu Junhe: It is better to save others than to ask for yourself, and it is better to save yourself than to save yourself. After hearing these twelve words, Mu Junhe finally understood Master's answer.
"But these people are all mud legs, how should they fight against the regular army of the Dayu Dynasty?" Mu Junhe didn't agree with Tai Jizi's idea at all, and in his opinion, these victims had reached the point of running out of ammunition and food.
Some people were so hungry that they couldn't even walk steadily, and some even starved to death on the streets. It would be a fool's dream to defeat the regular army of the Dayu Dynasty with them.
"Have you ever seen grass sprout?" Tai Jizi did not answer his question directly, but continued to ask Mu Junhe.
"I've seen it in vain, but what does this have to do with whether the people can defeat the government." Mu Junhe replied.
"And what happens if you press a stone on an unsprouted grass seed?" Taejiko asked again.
"I think the grass sprouts and grows out of the soil next to the rocks." Mu Junhe thought for a while and said.
"What if that one is covered with grass seeds?"
"If that's the case, I think it's likely that the stone will be pushed open by the grass below."
"You see that this grass is like one of us, and that stone represents the poverty and famine that is pressing on the people, how do you say to save the people, and what should we do?" After Tai Jizi finished speaking, he stared at Mu Junhe carefully until he saw Mu Junhe's frowning brows.
"Master, I understand, if you want to save these people, you must gather the hard-working people, and then push the corrupt officials and local tyrants and gentry who are pressing on you to the ground!" The more he spoke, the more excited he became, and it wasn't until he had finished all his words that he realized that this so-called gathering of the power of the people was actually a rebellion.
As a person surnamed Mu, although he hates the ridiculous practices of the royal family very much on weekdays, after all, blood is thicker than water, and he doesn't want the Dayu Dynasty to be completely destroyed by the rebellious people.
"That's right, that's the best way to save these victims." Mu Junhe is still a little resistant to Taijizi's method.
"Then Master, you have already thought of a solution to the problem, so why don't you go far and do it?" After listening to this, Mu Junhe asked.
"It seems that I still don't understand what the teacher said just now, I just said that as long as all the grass is up, the stones will be opened." Thinking of this, Mu Junhe recovered from the meeting.
"Senior brother, at the beginning, the master told me that the Taoist sect in the world is divided into two factions in the final analysis, and these two factions are upheld: the world will not benefit from any loss, and the world will not take one body. And the other row thinks that if you want to become an immortal, you should be good, and you should be good and get the way to be right, which of the two factions do you think is right? Li Yi looked at Mu Junhe strangely, he didn't understand why his senior brother suddenly asked this question.
In fact, what he didn't know was that it was entirely because Mu Junhe had just seen a huge explosion that caused the houses of the Huainan Royal Mansion and the surrounding people to collapse, and he felt it for a while, and these people in power in the Imperial Dynasty did everything for their own interests.
And they don't care about the lives of ordinary people. Regarding Mu Junhe, not only Li Yi, but also Jun Keyi and others fell into contemplation.
"Brother Mu, do you still need to ask this question, I think as long as you are a normal person, you will choose the first faction you said!" Qi Chao gave his own answer without thinking about it.
After all, the education he received from an early age was the concept of Confucianism. The most important thing for Confucianism is to join the WTO, and learning and excelling is the most fundamental concept of Confucianism.
Using what you have learned to help the Son of Heaven shepherd the people is the ultimate goal of all the world's sons.
"I think that only by pulling out a dime and not taking a profit from this world can we be truly peaceful." Although Ansu used to be a bandit, he did the business of robbing homes and houses, but at that time, he thought that as long as everyone in this world did not pull out a dime and did not take any profit, there would be real peace in the world.
"I think what Little Brother Qi said is reasonable, if everyone aims to do good deeds and accumulate virtues, then the world will also be ruled greatly." After thinking for a while, Jun Keyi also gave his opinion.
After all, he and his brother were both Confucian children, and both of them had gone through the imperial examination officialdom. Therefore, the Confucian concept in his mind is deeply rooted.
"Junshi, I feel that what An Jun said is not wrong!" Although Wu Zhongxiao's real thoughts at this time were: I can do nothing, but I want to serve me all over the world, but he doesn't dare to express his thoughts.
Because after all, it seems too selfish. Although they all gave their own opinions, Mu Junhe still stared at Li Yi and waited for his answer.
Because he wanted to know if the official residences of the two were the same as the brothers who came out of the same school.
"I once had the privilege of reading the classics of Yang Zhu Xianxian, and I still agree with the views of the sages, and at the same time, I have carefully studied the "Taishang Induction Chapter" and I feel that the views on doing good and becoming enlightened also make sense, and Master once asked me the same question." Li Yi said slowly.
"And how did you answer in the first place?" It was not Mu Junhe who asked, but Jun Keyi.
"Actually, I can't tell which of these two factions is more right, and then I answered my master directly: Do whatever you want and don't ask anything." Li Yi smiled and said his original answer again.
And Mu Junhe couldn't help but smile at the corner of his mouth after listening to Li Yi's answer. Because this answer is exactly what he answered to Master at the beginning, and his original words at the beginning were: Don't ask right or wrong, just ask your heart.
Thinking of what he had said to his master at the beginning, Mu Junhe's eyes began to sharpen.
"Originally, I didn't want to get involved in the battle of Huainan Kingdom, but some people did too much, they blocked the Xuanwu Gate and used the thunder to thunder and didn't care about the life or death of ordinary people at all, if it wasn't for the vigilance of the junior brother just now, we were afraid that we would all be gray at the moment, and they all said that if people don't offend me, I won't offend anyone, since they have no scruples, I won't keep my hands anymore." Mu Junhe realistically looked at the huge pit at the city gate, and then at Fubo, who was still laughing wildly behind him.
At this time, Fu Bo was holding a double whip and frantically killing his opponent in the crowd, although he was short in stature, his movements were very flexible.
Watching him flicker through the crowd like an ape. After Mu Junhe finished speaking, he turned around with a long sword and rushed in the direction of Fubo.
At this time, his speed was like a lightning bolt, so that Li Yi and the others didn't react. Just in the blink of an eye, Mu Junhe swept to Fu Bo's side, and then the long sword was unsheathed and then the long sword was returned to the sheath.
The two actions were completed in only a few moments, and even the people around them did not react. In the next second, Fu Bo, who was still laughing wantonly, felt his neck cold first, and then he couldn't help but drop the double whip in his hand to touch his neck.
He didn't touch it, but when he touched it, a large amount of blood mist sprayed out like a fountain around his neck.