Chapter Forty-Eight: Rather a Dog of Peace than a Man of Troubled Times
Chapter 48 Rather be a peaceful dog than a troubled world
"Datang, is it just like this?" someone sighed in a low voice in the darkness.
"There is no immortal country in the world, an undefeated home. The rule of the imperial court is becoming more and more corrupt, the eunuchs are autocratic, the feudal towns are divided and the party within the court is constantly fighting, the land is constantly annexed, the civil uprisings are continuous, the wars are numerous, and the people are not living well.
Li Shimin once said: Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize a boat. That's a good saying, if a dynasty is weakened to the point where the common people can't live, then it should perish!" another voice said indifferently.
"Brother Yun can see it, Datang has perished, but I still sigh for it, it seems that my cultivation is not at home, ashamed, ashamed. There is no reason for this, there is no reason for this, there is no Amitabha Buddha in the south. After reciting a sutra, the voice calmed down.
"It's not that you don't practice enough, but the period of your cultivation happens to be the period of the reign of the Tang Dynasty, and you have witnessed its rise and fall, so you feel something, I just have a long time of cultivation, and I have experienced more, so I see it lightly.
Alas, this land of China, after the chaos, there is a great rule, it is the operation of heaven, the change of humanity, but the suffering, but it is always the people of Li, I really can't bear it, Xing, the people suffer, death, the people suffer. The indifferent voice also became muffled.
"So Brother Yun plans to devote himself to this troubled world and save the people? Brother Yun has such a compassionate heart, which is really a blessing for all the people in the world, but this period of changing the dynasty is the time when the heavens are chaotic and the killing and robbery are everywhere, if you are not careful, you will be involved in the killing and robbery, and if you are not careful, you will have to worry about your life, even if you are not infected with the killing and robbery, you will also provoke a red dust cause and effect, and the righteous path will also be greatly affected in the future. Brother Yun, I think you'd be as good as..."
"Don't persuade me, I have made up my mind, I can't change it, the ancient sages once said: big husband, do something, don't do something. What is the difference between watching the people suffer and not caring about those cultivators who do not eat the fireworks of the world and only care about their own cultivation?
Cultivation is the cultivation of the mind, and only by acting according to the guidance of the original mind can we practice the right path! Otherwise, if we disobey our original mind, we will form inner demons in the future, and if we are not careful, our souls will fly away and we will not take it. Besides, if what I want to do this time, if I succeed, I will not only be able to save a large number of Li people, but I will also gain a lot of merits, and I will be a little more sure of the Tao in the future, but as for cause and effect, I don't have to worry, I have my own solution, you don't have to worry about me.
However, my plan this time still depends on you, I hope you don't blame me for dragging you into this red dust. ”
"Amitabha, I don't go to hell, whoever goes to hell, the Dharma is boundless, and all sentient beings are universal. Brother Yun has the heart to save the world, how can I stand by and watch, not to mention that Brother Yun and I have the grace of recreation, don't say that it is just to help, it is to give up my self-cultivation, why not, Brother Yun can rest assured. ”
"Okay, if you go well, you will become an adult, and if you go against it, you will become an immortal! Dayan fifty, Tianyan forty-nine, everything has a glimmer of life, you see how I am, in this troubled world, for the people of the world to fight for this vitality!"
Baishi Town, originally an ordinary town, although not rich, but also stable, but with the demise of the Tang Dynasty, it was also affected.
A series of events, such as excesses of taxes and miscellaneous taxes, the collection of grain, the abolition of laws, and the abandonment of land, all clearly and unmistakably told the townspeople a message: troubled times are coming.
Finally, one day, the relatively quiet and peaceful atmosphere of White Rock Town was broken, and a group of party cavalry broke into the town.
The Dangxiang people originally lived in the northwest Xia Prefecture, belonged to the nomadic people, and lived by grazing, whenever they were affected by natural disasters and livestock production was reduced, they would rush into the Central Plains to loot and make up for the losses.
If the Central Plains country is strong, they are as docile as sheep, and when the Tang Dynasty was prosperous, they also surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, but later the Tang Dynasty weakened, and they tore off the mask of their usual docility and became as fierce and cruel as a hungry wolf, especially now, the Tang Dynasty is destroyed, and the feudal towns around the country are divided and attacked each other, and no one has time to take care of the party, as long as they do not attack the city or damage their core interests, the princes will turn a blind eye.
In this way, the party members became more arrogant, often formed cavalry to plunder everywhere, and the surrounding villages and towns in Yanzhou, Lingzhou, Yinzhou and other places were harassed by them, and some villages were even slaughtered.
This time, Baishi Town was targeted by a party cavalry of about 3oo people, they took advantage of the lax defense in the town, and suddenly killed, and the 5o escort team in Baishi Town was negligent in training on weekdays, and was defeated, strangled, and annihilated in an instant. After that, the party cavalry began to burn and loot. Men, killing, women, grain, gold and silver were all scavenged, packed and taken away, and those who could not be taken away were burned down, but the poor townspeople still struggled to stop them, but where could they stop these robbers who had turned into beasts?
Zhao Yuanwu is an orphan, followed the villagers to escape the famine to Baishi Town, lonely, almost starved to death, fortunately, the townspeople are very simple and kind-hearted, and see him pitiful, others are also clever, sweet mouth, very likable, so from time to time to help him, otherwise, he would have starved to death, although he survived, but he was hungry and full, malnourished, and the nine-year-old looked like a six-year-old child.
He felt that something was wrong in the morning, his right eyelid kept jumping, and his heart was panicking, so he went to what he thought was the safest place - a hundred-year-old poplar tree in the center of the town.
Zhao Yuanwu looked at the hellish scene in the town with red eyes, but gritted his teeth, even if the corners of his mouth were bitten out of blood, he didn't make a sound, watching the people he knew well on weekdays being killed one by one, and the originally neat town became the Shura Hell, his heart seemed to be burned by a raging fire, and a voice echoed repeatedly in her ears, as if the sentence when she heard the story on the street before: When the troubled times come, the lives are ruined, and it is better to be a peace dog than a troubled person!
Just when Zhao Yuanwu secretly roared and Baishi Town suffered a disaster, hundreds of miles away, on the edge of a small river, a purple-robed Taoist priest suddenly turned around and looked in the direction of Baishi Town, his brows furrowed, and said: "What a heavy killing atmosphere, have you suffered a military disaster, alas, since you have encountered it, I will go and take a look to see if it can be rescued." After speaking, he bent down and grabbed a handful of soil, sprinkled it into the sky, and said: "The emperor and the queen of the earth, the gods are gone, escape!" and disappeared.
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