Chapter 113: Daoism and Nature
When he entered the city, Ji Er did not continue to ride on the back of the green cow, but instead took the rope to carry the green cow and walked on the street.
There are not many people coming and going in Taiyang City, and most people hide at home and dare not go out, making this originally prosperous city look extremely depressed.
"Tait!"
Just after walking a short distance, Ji Er saw a patrol soldier walking towards him, hurriedly pulling the rope of the green cow and leaning against him.
After the soldiers left, Ji Er walked forward again.
"I don't know, the wine shop has not opened.
Ji Er murmured to himself, and then walked towards the largest wine shop in the center of the city, but he was somewhat worried that the wine shop would close early due to the war.
"Hey, it's not closed!"
After arriving at the center of the city, Ji Er saw the opening restaurant from afar, and a smile appeared on his face.
"Aniu, we can finally take a break."
Ji Er turned around and patted Qingniu on the head, then quickly walked towards the restaurant.
"Moo!"
The green bull growled and followed behind with his tail shaking.
"Cheer officer, please come in!"
When the child saw Ji Er with extraordinary temperament, and the blue cow had a very strange appearance, he felt that this person was extraordinary and hurried to come up to receive him.
"There is a private room on the second floor. Should I go up objectively?"
When Ji Er heard this, he touched his somewhat shriveled purse, then smiled and shook his head, saying, "The private room on the second floor is too expensive, I'd better sit on the first floor."
After saying that, Ji Er's eyes began to patrol the first floor, but after looking around, Ji Er's brows frowned slightly.
It turned out that the first floor of this tavern was full of guests. If you want to continue to stay on the first floor, you can only share a table with the rest of the people.
"I wonder if this young man can sit here?"
But soon, Ji Er slowly walked towards a table and bowed to the young man sitting in the main seat.
"I am willing to sit at the same table with my juniors, so I will naturally be unable to ask for it. The waiter, remove all the banquets on the table and replace them with a new one. I want to ask this senior not to be drunk."
The child, who was secretly upset because he was out of sight, immediately lit up when he heard the young man's words, and hurriedly agreed and ran to work.
When Ji Er heard this, he carefully looked at the young man and the other person on the table, and then smiled and said, "Since the young man has invited him enthusiastically, I will be disrespectful."
Just as Ji Er looked at the two of them, the purple-clothed swordsman beside the young man also looked at Ji Er curiously, but there was a hint of alertness in his eyes.
"I'm Yang Yue, don't say this to my brother, how dare you ask me about my senior's name?"
The waiter just removed the banquet and the young man began to introduce himself.
This young man who called himself Yang Yue was nothing else, but General Huan Chang, who disguised himself as a restaurant today, wanted to hear the people's opinions on the fact that he ordered the beheading of thousands of people.
To be honest, Huan Chang would not be willing to do such a thing if he had no choice but to have any last resort.
"In Xia Ji'er, I'm not much older than the Young Hero. Don't call me senior, just call me Brother Ji."
Huan Chang nodded slightly when he heard this, but his heart was a little uneasy.
The moment Ji Er entered the wine shop, it attracted Huan Chang's attention, because Huan Chang could not feel any fluctuations in his true energy from this person.
However, this person's every move seems to be integrated with the heaven and the earth, as if this person is part of the heaven and the earth.
Then there is only one explanation. The middle-aged man in front of him has unfathomable martial arts skills.
On the Jiuzhou Continent, many warriors can delay their physical aging after reaching a certain level of cultivation. They cannot guess the age of these people through the appearance of the warriors.
Therefore, even though Ji Er looks only a teenager older than Huan Chang, Huan Chang still calls him a senior.
However, according to Ji Er's implication, this person's appearance should be revealed by his real age. If this is the case, then Ji Er's cultivation talent would be enough to shock Huan Chang.
Mo Dao did not pay attention to the conversation between the two, but instead stared at Ji Er tightly.
Song Renjun had just captured Taiyang City, and the relationship between Song State and the Seven Star Sect became worse and worse. Suddenly, a person with unfathomable martial arts appeared in the city. Mo Dao naturally did not dare to be careless.
"Hey, these nobles are rebellious, but nearly a thousand people from the same clan are going to be beheaded at noon this day. The general's actions are a bit too cruel."
At this moment, someone suddenly sighed with regret.
"Silence!"
As soon as this person finished speaking, his companions around him hurriedly spoke to stop him, and looked around with some guilt.
However, the person who spoke just now was not very low, and many people in the restaurant heard it, and almost all of them focused their attention on the two of them.
"Waiter, check out!"
The man just said that he sighed for a moment, but he didn't expect that it would attract everyone's attention. Thinking that he might offend the brutal general, his face looked like a slut, and he hurriedly checked the bill and left.
"Is the General really as cruel as that man said?"
Ji Er looked at Huan Chang, as if he wanted to hear the evaluation of the general from the other party.
"This is a bad statement."
"Since those people choose to rebel, they should think of their own consequences, and the innocent people who died because of these people rebelling are even far more than a thousand."
"Not to mention anything else, there are only those generals and officials who are loyal to the Song Dynasty, plus their families, who are probably not a small number."
"Only by using killing to stop killing and using violence to prevent violence, so that those who have ulterior motives will never dare to rebel again, can the dispute end and more people be preserved."
Huan Chang still didn't answer, but Mo Dao took the lead in contributing reason.
Ji Er looked at Mo Dao deeply when he heard this, and then sighed quietly: "Use killing to stop killing, use violence to prevent violence, let alone whether it can succeed."
"Even if it really makes people dare not rebel, it will plant the root of rebellion in these people's hearts and cannot fundamentally solve the problem."
"What you do is just a bad decision."
Huan Chang couldn't help but feel moved when he heard this, and looked straight at Ji Er and asked, "How can we fundamentally solve the problem?"
Ji Er took a sip of wine and said, "The Tao follows nature, and it is cured by inaction."
"What is the rule by doing nothing?"
Huan Chang pressed step by step.
"The king does nothing, and the people transform themselves; the king likes quietness, and the people are righteous; the king has no affairs, and the people are rich; the king has no desires, and the people are simple."
"The General was too hasty in his reforms. Although his original intention was to enrich the country and strengthen the people, what he brought to the State of Song was not prosperity but turmoil."
"If we cannot take advantage of the situation and follow the will of the people, even if we suppress it hard, it will be difficult to calm the civil strife."
Chapter completed!