Since realizing that her identity is not worth hiding here, Jiang Yujin has let go a lot. The carriage traveled south for another two days and finally saw water. It's just that the Yingxi River doesn't look like a stream, but a rapid river.
There was fertile land on both sides of the river. Sun Zikai couldn't help but sigh: "The barbarians can obviously live by the river and farm for a living, but they insist on robbing us." The two went up the river, although the barbarians did not cultivate grain fields by the river. , but because of the delicious vegetation and fertile wild herds, people often gather here and settle down for a long time.
The two had no choice but to look at the river from a distance, trying not to be noticed by the barbarians. However, the deeper they went, the more barbarians there were. Sun Zikai was the one who knew the number and location of the barbarians best. Knowing that they would not be able to escape, he simply drove the carriage towards them. Walk towards the river.
How could there be such an exquisite carriage outside the Guan, but how could someone from within the Guan come here alone in such a place? Therefore, when the barbarians saw them for the first time, they did not think that they were Guannei people, but thought that they were barbarians from other tribes who had picked up the Guannei people's carriage.
Jiang Yujin was quite nervous at first, but Sun Zikai didn't take it seriously at all, and even greeted the barbarians enthusiastically. Because there were too many barbarian tribes gathered here, there was an unwritten rule - plundering was not allowed on both sides of the Ying River, so the two children had an unimpeded journey.
"Are you also a practitioner?" Jiang Yujin asked.
Sun Zikai nodded, and Jiang Yujin asked again: "Then you studied at Yan Mingzong?"
"No, no one taught me, I can only realize it on my own."
"No wonder, I have seen practitioners, but none like you can put your fingers on the edge of a knife."
"Do you want to learn? I'll teach you."
"I don't want to learn, I want to learn the real way to cultivate immortality."
"I want to learn too, but I don't have the chance."
"Then I will teach you after I finish learning."
"Okay, uh, do I need to pay your tuition?"
"A piece of gold."
"What? Forget it, I won't learn anymore." Sun Zikai said dejectedly.
Jiang Yujin asked curiously: "Is a piece of gold really a lot of money?"
Sun Zikai nodded and replied: "The piece of gold you took out in front of me and Lao Yang, Lao Zhang that day was the first time the three of us had seen gold in our lives. It was such a big brick with patterns engraved on it. , I never dared to think about it before.”
Jiang Yujin said: "In the past, they asked me for a piece of gold for a sip of water, and a piece of gold for a meal."
"Then you are indeed stupid."
Jiang Yujin kicked him and said angrily: "You are stupid, I...I don't know."
"Who are you?" Sun Zikai asked.
Jiang Yujin hugged her legs, curled up, her eyes were very sad. Sun Zikai said: "Like me, you are also an orphan?"
"The same to you?"
"Um."
"How did they die?"
"They must have died unjustly, hey... I don't know the cause of their death. My father and mother are both smaller figures in the sect who are not considered small figures. It is not their turn to die, but they are Dead. No one gave me a reason, so I had to find it myself. What about you, how did they die?"
"Those who are killed, no...those who are forced to die, commit suicide."
Sun Zikai had no intention of asking further questions and didn't want to mention her sadness, but Jiang Yujin kept her emotions in her heart for a long time, talking to herself, and told her experience.
To put it simply, thousands of miles away, there are two big countries, Song and Zhao, and four small countries, and the royal family of Song is named Jiang. The two big countries have been in opposition for thousands of years, but the four small countries have frequently changed dynasties. In fact, this is also the result of the secret operations of Song and Zhao. They used the four small countries as shields between the big countries. When the conflict of interests reached an irreversible level, they Some small countries are going to suffer.
This method has been going on for thousands of years, but the king of Qi, one of the four small countries, secretly had great ambitions and worked hard for many years to recruit troops and horses. He used the art of Lian Heng to recruit elites from the four countries and created a front that ran through the east and west. Once the rebellion broke out, it took only three years to defeat the big country's frontier fortress. The lightning force caught Song and Zhao two countries by surprise. After the frontier fortress was opened, the four countries marched straight in and defeated the big country's establishment in one fell swoop. Song and Zhao could not gather their troops, so they could only Ushering in the situation of national subjugation.
Jiang Yujin is one of the princesses of the Song Dynasty and the only survivor of the Jiang royal family. She didn't even have a maid, so she desperately escaped from the imperial city, pretending to be a beggar and wandering around for hundreds of miles. Later, because of her status as a daughter and her unfamiliarity with things outside the palace, she struggled to move and had to escape from the gold and silver. Find knights from the Jianghu to escort you.
It's just that she didn't know any knights. She only found a group of swindlers. She originally just wanted to go to a sect hundreds of miles away to practice and survive, but those swindlers took her thousands of miles away for gold.
Sun Zikai was confused and asked Jiang Yujin what a country was. Jiang Yujin was stunned for a while, and then explained to him in detail what a country, a royal family, a princess, an official, a frontier, a river...
After listening, Sun Zikai was deeply amazed by the world of monarchy. He said: "It turns out that people can still live like this. We gatekeepers are like an army in your country."
"No," Jiang Yujin said, "Even a frontier army has more cooks than all of you."
"It's great to have such a united world, but as you said, your country is hundreds of times bigger than ours."
Jiang Yujin corrected him: "It's a thousand times, no, it's even bigger."
"Well, in such a big place, wouldn't it be ridiculous to give all the power to one family or one person? The first round of exploitation by the highest-ranking person on the lower-ranking person will spread downward layer by layer. If ten people are exploited, ten people are exploiting a hundred people, and a hundred people are exploiting thousands or ten thousand people, then don’t the people at the bottom have a miserable life?”
"It's true that there are taxes, but the people should not have a hard life."
"You are not a common person, how can you know whether they are suffering or not."
Jiang Yujin insisted: "You only need to pay taxes once a year. It's not hard. When my father was still alive, I heard that people there were not living well."
Sun Zikai shook his head and said: "How is it possible to only pay taxes once? You are talking about national taxes. According to you, in such a country, every province, every county and every city is within the organizational structure, but your royal family People don't pay them, but they pay you. Where do they get the money? It's from the people at the bottom. If the city lord picks it up once, the second-in-command below the city lord will pick it up again. A son, a daughter, or even a servant in the house might do it once, but it's just not on the table. It doesn't mean that it won't happen. No, it will definitely happen. Human nature is like this."
"You're talking nonsense." Jiang Yujin was angry. Even though her country was destroyed, she could not tolerate anyone slandering the achievements of her ancestors and her father. "You don't understand anything. When my father was alive, he could be called a holy king."
"What about your Grandpa Huang?"
"He is also a holy king."
"Where is Grandpa Emperor?"
"He is even more of a holy king."
"My wife, my wife..."
"What on earth are you going to say!"
Sun Zikai said helplessly: "You have already said that the power of the whole country is in his hands alone. Will anyone dare to say that he is not a holy king? The army does not exist for the people. This is something that I don't understand. If the people exist for nobles and officials like you, then if the people live a miserable life, who will they redress their grievances with? They are like a drop in the ocean, and they will die when they die. It is not a big deal to die. Who knows where to put the pen of a pen? What is written on the paper in front of your father?"
Jiang Yujin was on fire, but Sun Zikai jokingly "touched" a ball of flame from her hair and smiled: "Look, you are on fire."
"Huh, I'm ignoring you! Drive your car well!" She sat back in the carriage, but what she didn't know was that Sun Zikai was a guy full of ideas. He grabbed a problem and always The purpose is to understand it thoroughly and then realize something else.
He didn't care whether Jiang Yujin wanted to listen or not, and continued to mutter to himself: "It must be like this, the people are living a very hard life, and it's not just a day or two, otherwise your country would not have perished."
Jiang Yujin rushed out of the car and said angrily: "What did you say!"
"Such a big country, no, two countries, four small countries, secretly united together and destroyed you in three years. Is three years really a short time? It's not short at all. The army can definitely do it. Send them to the border fortress, and then recruit strong men one by one in the country. If the officials and the people are united and the people have the country in their hearts, they will not be able to break in in thirty years, let alone three years. We gatekeepers have never been able to break in. There are more than twenty people who have been blocked here for hundreds of years. Clay Buddhas stand in a row. Everyone knows that they will die if they come, but they come one by one. A thousand-mile embankment was destroyed in an ant nest. Your country must be completely rotten. , the people were also heartbroken and could not withstand this test."
"You bastard! What do you know! You know nothing!" Jiang Yujin was so angry that she cried and sat in the carriage wiping her tears.
Sun Zikai then realized it later, rubbed his head, and said haha: "Ah... this is indeed a bad thing for your family. I'm sorry, I was just talking about the problems of this country. , I’m not talking about the problem of your parents. Your parents must be good. They were deceived by the people below. It’s also my fault that they don’t come out often. Such a big country cannot be visited every day...ah. ..That was not what I meant..."
In the carriage, the girl shouted at the top of her lungs: "Shut up!"
"Okay, okay, I won't say anything anymore."
The carriage continued to move along the Ying River, but the girl was really annoyed. She was so angry that she never said a word to Sun Zikai. Fortunately, Sun Zikai was already accustomed to a world of one person. He was full of whimsical ideas and did not feel bored at all.
