"Da da da……"
On a hill outside Youzhou City, a red figure wearing a jet-black bamboo hat rushed up on a Turkic horse.
On the hill, he suddenly pulled the reins, and the horse's head quickly turned backwards. The front half of its body was raised high, threatening to overturn the person on its back.
However, the man on horseback has excellent riding skills, and his legs are firmly clamped on the horse's belly, giving the horse no chance to harm its owner.
Seeing that his careful tactics were ineffective, the horse from Turks neighed, slammed its hooves down, and breathed out from the ground, gradually raising a small cloud of dust.
He snorted twice, shook his head slightly, and shook the mane on his neck into a hairstyle he liked. Then he lowered his head, revealing the owner on his back.
The man in red slowly raised his head and gently held the edge of the hat, tilting it up slightly, revealing the stern face under the hat. It was Li Xingyun.
The carefreeness and cynicism of the past are gone, and the stubble on his chin is squeezed together, making this stern face look a little haggard, but it looks much more mature.
His eyes reflected the entire Youzhou City, as well as the lights of fire and the rising plumes of smoke in the city.
The sound of horse hooves trampling on the stone floor seemed to be heard in my ears, the wanton and obscene laughter of the Khitan people, the sound of waving butcher knives through the air, the gasps of the people as they fled in a hurry, the panicked begging for mercy, the painful screams, and finally They were all drowned in the sizzling sound of burning fire.
The colors in his eyes were rendered into: compassion, self-blame, guilt, and anger.
The hands holding the reins and the riding crop were tightly clenched, feeling that there was an extremely violent force flowing in his body. He desperately wanted to pour it out, but he had to suppress it within his body.
Li Xingyun gritted his teeth and squeezed out three words from his mouth: "Yuan Tiangang!"
"I'm here!"
The next moment, Yuan Tiangang appeared next to Li Xingyun in a blue suit, mask and hat. He knelt on one knee, placed his left forearm across his left knee, and fisted his right hand on the ground, respectfully. With his head lowered, only the tip of the iceberg of the cold mask was exposed under the bamboo hat.
"Is this also my senior brother's plan?"
Li Xingyun did not look at Yuan Tiangang, but asked coldly.
"Yes!"
Yuan Tiangang didn't even raise his head, he just lowered his head and answered respectfully.
"Why?" Li Xingyun asked puzzledly.
If the ongoing burning, killing, and looting in Youzhou City at this moment is a manifestation of the true nature of the Khitan barbarians, then when Youzhou City was destroyed, it was the bad people who aroused the ferocious and barbaric nature of the Khitan barbarians.
The bad guys have some undercover agents in the Khitan army, but they may not be enough to shake the morale of the army, or even have much impact on the Khitan army at the critical moment.
However, when their vigilance is relatively low, they can become the devil's whisper that lingers in their hearts and arouse the most basic desires in their hearts.
"His Highness fought life and death with the princes of the Central Plains. Even if all the princes were wiped out and the world was unified, the people would not be very grateful and would only think that His Highness had finally become the biggest warlord."
"Only by letting the Khitan, an external force that is not recognized by the people of the Central Plains, show its most ferocious fangs in front of these numb people, crushing the numbness with fear, His Highness Jieshi can defeat the Khitan in a more brutal way and save the entire world. When the Central Plains is in purgatory, the people will respect His Highness from the bottom of their hearts, love His Highness, regard Him as their savior, and worship Him as a god. When His Highness ascends the throne and becomes emperor, if anyone objects..."
Yuan Tiangang paused slightly, which seemed to be organizational language, and then said: "In Jiang Yunqing's words, even if Emperor Gaozu is reborn, Emperor Taizong is alive, and God Haotian comes, he will be drowned by countless people spitting spit. Slapping one slap after another, he was slapped into pieces. Although these words were disrespectful, the meaning expressed was quite appropriate. By then, His Highness’s momentum will be unparalleled. As long as His Highness ascends the throne, he can easily create a prosperous age. !”
As he spoke, Yuan Tiangang raised his head excitedly. Under his cold mask, his blazing eyes stared at Li Xingyun, as if he had already seen the scene of Li Xingyun ascending the throne and proclaiming himself emperor, recreating the prosperous age of the Tang Dynasty.
"But, to create a prosperous world, do we have to sacrifice many innocent lives?"
Li Xingyun did not doubt the feasibility of the plan mentioned by Yuan Tiangang. This plan came from his senior brother. In his limited knowledge, his senior brother's talent was unparalleled in this world, just like being a master of astronomy. , a god who knows everything about geography and knows everything for thousands of years.
Although the senior brother said that he only knew a little bit, in Li Xingyun's view, everyone in the world was just a frog at the bottom of the well. Only the senior brother could sit and enjoy the entire sky, swim in it, and push a few clouds to the mouth of the well. The sky can make the frog at the bottom of the well marvel.
However, as a doctor, I naturally have some pity and can't bear the loss of innocent lives.
So much so that he sometimes wonders whether such a sacrifice is worth it!
Was the decision he made the right one?
Senior brother said that as a doctor, your heart should be as hard as gold and stone, because doctors in this troubled world will experience countless human miseries. If your heart is not hard enough, it will be difficult to strengthen your determination to save the world and save people.
Small medicine heals people, big medicine saves the country.
After all, his heart is just hardening, not hard enough. He is just a little doctor after all.
"Your Highness, in this troubled world, no one is innocent. Living in this troubled world, being displaced, having their families broken up, their wives and children separated, and their lives like grass and grass is their destiny. They must recognize it!"
Yuan Tiangang's hoarse voice seemed extremely sonorous and powerful.
After hearing what Yuan Tiangang said, Li Xingyun was inexplicably angry: "Why?"
"Just because they were born in this troubled world!"
Yuan Tiangang replied categorically, as if this answer was the only answer.
"But I was also born in this troubled time!"
Li Xingyun felt that he was following his senior brother and did not accept his fate, so he wanted to refute.
But Yuan Tiangang smiled and said: "So Your Highness has been wandering around the world since he was a child. He has been helpless in the face of hunger and cold, disease and pain. He has witnessed the tragic deaths of important people around him and is helpless. Your Highness, this is your fate, and you have to accept it!" "
In just a few words, Yuan Tiangang finished talking about Li Xingyun's childhood, which was comparable to an ordinary person's life. In an instant, Li Xingyun fell into silence, with nothing to say.
Thinking about it, his life was not much better than these people before he was nine years old.
Fortunately, after I was nine years old, I encountered great luck in misfortune, and met my master, my senior brother, and my junior sister.
He had to recognize the eight years of happiness in Jianlu!
He has to admit the misery he had before he was nine years old!
But Yuan Tiangang added: "Of course, His Highness's destiny is different. It is also His Highness's destiny to end this troubled world, and His Highness must accept it!"
Li Xingyun's eyes glowed with determination, driving away all compassion, self-blame, guilt, and anger.
"No, this is not just my life, this is the life that all living beings in this troubled world deserve!"
After saying that, there was no smoke, no fire, and no Youzhou City in Li Xingyun's eyes.
He gently pressed down the bamboo hat, pulled the reins and turned around to leave. No one knew what reappeared in his eyes.
Maybe, it’s the world!
ps: Do you feel that Lao Li's gradually changing mentality at this moment is similar or different from Lao Li's mentality in the sixth season?
