The crossing starts from the Datang Shuanglong

Chapter 296
Outside Luoyang, devastation is everywhere.

Compared to the south, which has generally settled down, the situation in the north is actually more chaotic, so that Chu Tianxiu can only go out of the city for more than ten miles, and the next road is full of devastation as far as he can see, almost everywhere All deserted villages, with bones and corpses.

Chu Tianxiu couldn't bear to see the scene, so after seeing the corpse, he used his inner strength to break the soil layer and buried the bones so that he would not expose the corpse to the wilderness.

It is precisely because of this reason that Chu Tianxiu discovered that human desires are not only the seven deadly sins of arrogance, greed, and gluttony, but emotions such as compassion, pity, and kindness can actually be regarded as a kind of desire.

Now he seems to be unable to control himself correctly to fulfill his desire to be a good person.

In the past, after Chu Tianxiu encountered one or two corpses on the road, he would indeed do a little bit of good deeds to bury those corpses without delaying his business, but it would definitely not be like now. When he came across a corpse, he changed to bury it by hand, so that he buried at least 2000 corpses within three days after leaving the city, which delayed her a lot of business.

This incident is both funny and sad.

The hair is like a leek, cut back to life; the head is like a chicken, cut back to sing.

Chu Tianxiu's position today is indeed a bit high, so that when he was in Jiangdu and Luoyang, he could not see the sorrow of the common people below.But just because he can't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

The tyranny of Yang Guang, the rampage of bandits, the rise of the rebel army, and the struggle of the princes for hegemony, are like a pair of scissors, repeatedly harvesting the flesh and life of the Li people on this land, and turning them into figures that can be measured one by one. consumables.

At this point, Chu Tianxiu should actually feel a little ashamed, because after he moved to Luoyang, even if he ordered the ministers such as Xu Xing to follow the old practice in the south, he would greatly exempt the corvee taxes in various places, and at the same time use them as labor substitutes. Relief collects the refugees and resettles the people, but today's north is too dilapidated, so that although his policies of benefiting the people can be useful, they still cannot solve the fundamental problem.

"Although Li Mi was defeated, Xu Shiji was still there, and he seemed to follow Li Mi and seek refuge with the Li Clan, which was a very unstable factor. Not to mention, after the army in Wagangzhai was defeated by Kou Zhong, it had already scattered into several The bandits caused the remnants and defeated generals of Wagangzhai to be everywhere within a thousand miles. These things must be dealt with harshly, ordering Cheng Yaojin, Luo Shixin, Yang Gongqing and others to wipe out all the surrounding bandits with the force of a thunderbolt sweep. Make peace. Otherwise, I am afraid it will be difficult to eliminate the banditry."

After this idea was born in Chu Tianxiu's heart, it continued to expand in his heart, expanding bigger and bigger, filling his heart with worries about the country and the people, and making him think of a complete bandit suppression plan in his heart , I want to return directly to Luoyang, announce the matter as the emperor, and complete this great event.

Go back, have to go back.

Without the presidency of the sage king himself, who would be able to do this kind of job of suppressing bandits?

Suppressing bandits is easy to say, but difficult to do.

This will not only consume a lot of manpower and material resources, but also affect the ownership of military power. If Chu Tianxiu is in Luoyang, naturally he only needs an imperial decree, but if it is replaced by false deeds, they will be in charge, even after repeated military discussions. , Discuss, and it is difficult to make an appropriate decision.

This is not because the three of them, Yu Shinan and Li Yaoshi, are unworthy, but because the three of them are only prime ministers after all, not the lord of the country.

Even though Chu Tianxiu had promised that after the three of Xu Xing had a discussion, they would be able to settle all domestic government affairs with one word, but in reality, that was impossible.

There are some red lines that they dare not and cannot touch.

"It's really bad. If I stay in Luoyang for a while longer and clean up these government and military affairs, it won't be like this. I don't know how many people and common people will die because of my inaction."

From the most objective point of view, the life and death of those common people is actually a problem left over from the previous dynasty, and has little to do with Chu Tianxiu in essence.

But to enjoy the power of the world, one must suffer the dirt of the world.

All the people living in this land, as long as they are the people of Chu Tianxiu, can eat any food, wear any clothes, and speak any words in their mouths. After that, she got involved with Chu Tianxiu, and every commoner in this country died due to swords, hunger and cold, etc., could be regarded as Chu Tianxiu's incompetence and sin.

At this point, Chu Tianxiu couldn't help but feel bitter, even though the root cause of his temporary departure from Luoyang was that something went wrong in his martial arts, which caused some problems in his spirit, so that he had to temporarily put down the things in his own hands. Power, go to other places to hide, but in essence, it is because of Chu Tianxiu's incompetence.

"One month, one month at most! I have to go back from Luoyang, otherwise I really can't explain to my people. Counting the days, it happens to be the time when the second crop of Jiaozhi's grain is ripe. If you order If we transport half of the production of Jiaozhi Kingdom this season, it may be enough to feed the people near Luoyang for a year, and it is completely enough to solve the famine problem near Luoyang! It can also provide a large amount of military food for the suppression of bandits."

In Chu Tianxiu's heart, a compassionate thought immediately emerged, and a hint of intolerance flowed out.

But after this thought appeared in his mind, there were still some distracting thoughts in his mind, which flooded into Chu Tianxiu's mind one after another.

"No, that's not right, bringing in food can't actually solve the fundamental problem. The best way is to kill all the powerful families near Luoyang and distribute all their land to the common people with little or no land. It is the great work I should do.”

"Migration, great migration. Now the population of the Central Plains is too large, which has exceeded the threshold of land capacity, so the most straightforward way is to migrate all those refugees to Yizhou, Ryukyu, Luzon and other overseas places to enrich the population there. population, wouldn’t it be the best of both worlds.”

"Kill kill kill, wipe out all the rogues and thieves, and the world will be peaceful."

In Chu Tianxiu's mind, there are really too many thoughts, just like a hen laying eggs, pouring into Chu Tianxiu's head in a steady stream. These things are almost all Chu Tianxiu's real thoughts. It is the expression of his true will.

However, Chu Tianxiu's personality has always been more rational than emotional, so that when he did things these years, he almost always did things step by step, one step at a time.

But now, most of the string of rationality in his head has been broken, making these thoughts covered by his rationality, like ghosts and evil spirits, ready to come out of Chu Tianxiu's head.

Fortunately, Chu Tianxiu is now outside the city, not inside the city.

There are no ministers or attendants by his side, otherwise, if he is still in the Luoyang Palace at this moment, then if his heart moves suddenly and he suddenly uses his own "inspiration" to make random decrees, then It's big when it's lively.

But to be honest, Chu Tianxiu's joy now is not small, because after he left Luoyang, he discovered a fact that can be called joy:

"For me now, it is indeed the best choice to go to the prairie and have a good time! But in this matter, after all, it is my rational decision, not an emotional choice. Judging from the current situation, As long as I wait for a while longer, after I have exhausted my sanity, either I have the choice, or I will either leave and return to Luoyang to be my own tyrant, or I will go all the way to Chang'an to kill Li Shimin, in comparison, my desire to kill Bi Xuan is really too small, it's not worth making me go all the way to the prairie."

Do whatever you want, it sounds really good, but in reality, it is extremely bad.

The function of the human brain is so powerful that it calculates almost all the time. In every second of the human mind, countless kinds of greed, arrogance, reliability, or It is unreliable desires and distracting thoughts, and human reason is a screening mechanism that blocks unreliable thoughts and leaves only one or several correct instructions.

But now, Chu Tianxiu's rationality is constantly being lost, making him completely unable to control his own state, making him confused.

"If not, I will find a vacant room and stay for a while. First, I will practice Fu Nanda's 'Van I as One' to strengthen my rational superego. Otherwise, before I go to the grassland, I will have to I went crazy on the way. Hehe, speaking of it, if I were really crazy, wouldn’t that make me almost like Shi Zhixuan? If that’s the case, I wonder if the evil emperor’s relic in Duke Yang’s treasury can help me. A little effect, help me solve the current predicament?"

Inexplicably, such an idea came to Chu Tianxiu's heart, and it firmly occupied Chu Tianxiu's mind, so that he finally changed his mind and weakened his original idea of ​​heading north all the way to the prairie. Thoughts and desires were exchanged for a seemingly better attention.

"clang!"

When Chu Tianxiu really changed his direction and set off to find an empty room where there were no dead people, a long, far-reaching, vast, thought-provoking, and Zen-like sound of a bronze bell suddenly sounded in his ears. As if a basin of cold water had been poured on his head, he regained some sanity immediately.

"Fortunately, fortunately! I almost completely lost my rationality and let myself be completely controlled by desire."

"Whose bell? I have to thank him. This is equivalent to saving my life!"

"Is there a master? What's the matter? With my current cultivation base in Dao Heart Demon Planting Dafa, I am afraid that as long as someone can approach me within three miles, I will feel emotional and aware of his existence. But outside Those big monks are no more than 100 meters away from me. Has my vigilance become so bad?"

In an instant, Chu Tianxiu turned more than a dozen thoughts from his own mind, but perhaps it was because his temporarily recovered rationality stimulated his sense of crisis, which made him ignore those distracting thoughts in his heart. , but put all his attention on the old monk in front of him.

This is a young monk wearing a moon-white monk's robe, who seems to be only 30 or [-] years old, with a face like a crown jade, but because of his pair of eyes that seem to embrace the world, with a Zen flavor of silence and withering, everyone who sees him They will subconsciously understand that even though this monk looks young, he must be an old monk with a good face. I am afraid that his real age is not seventy or eighty, but fifty or sixty.

In the hand of the old monk was holding a huge copper bell that weighed at least several hundred catties, and the sound of the bell just heard should be coming from this copper bell.

"Monk Liao Kong? Why did you come here? Could it be that you came to kill me? Are you making your own decisions, or do you Buddhists have more courage and want to die with me? It seems that you are really not afraid of me promulgating an extermination of Buddha. Order, kill all of your Buddhist sects."

If it was before, Chu Tianxiu wouldn't be so verbose, but now he really couldn't control himself, just now when he was confused, he said a lot of things in his heart, and asked in a cold voice.

If it was another monk, after hearing this blatant threatening words, he would either be frightened out of his wits and beg for mercy, or he would have murderous intentions, letting Chu Tianxiu know that there are also angry-eyed King Kong in Buddhism, but The old monk Kong's reaction was extremely interesting.At this moment, he didn't speak directly to give Chu Tianxiu an answer. Instead, he opened his mouth with a smile on his face, then pointed to his tongue, and played a riddle for Chu Tianxiu. .

"Shut up? You, an old monk, are unwilling to talk to me even at this point? Are you too confident, or do you look down on me, Chu Tianxiu? Since you showed your face in front of me, you will die if you hug me You have come here to subdue demons. If you still keep silent at this time, then you are not in line with your status as a Buddhist disciple."

Chu Tianxiu was slightly taken aback by this reaction of Liao Kong, and at the same time he remembered that this old monk seemed to be practicing closed-mouthed meditation, and hadn't spoken for decades.

If in the original plot, Xu Ziling stole the Chuanguo Yuxi from the Jingnian Temple he was guarding, then I am afraid that this old monk would practice silent meditation for the rest of his life and never speak again for the rest of his life. Feng, the behavior of snatching the Jade Seal of Chuanguo made Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling come to Luoyang, but they did not go to the Jingnian Temple to steal the treasure as in the original plot, which saved the old monk from a disaster and could continue. Practice his closed-mouthed meditation.

I don't know if it's the old monk's luck or misfortune.

(End of this chapter)