The new era of chaos begins in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 134
There are many things in this world that cannot be studied deeply.

For example, the demon-suppressing people's apparent principle of distribution of materials and welfare is according to need, rather than the principle of distribution according to work that is more recognized by later generations.

Shi Laodao just said some superficial reasons. Although it sounds reasonable, it is not the whole truth.

In earlier times, demon-suppressing people were not called demon-suppressing people at that time. They had another name.At that time, in order to fight against evil spirits, people gathered all the manpower and material resources from all over the world and focused on cultivating some talented elites.

As a result, most of the elites either made mistakes during their growth, or were destined to encounter bad luck and died young. However, among the few top people who survived and grew up, there were many degenerates.

When the final decisive battle broke out in Makino, people discovered that what really determined the direction of this war was not the top elites carefully cultivated by humans, but hundreds of thousands of ordinary mortal warriors and low-level monks who fought to the death.

The greatest advantage of our ancestors is that when they found a problem with a method, they would abandon her without hesitation, and then change to a new track and start anew.

Since that catastrophe, many far-sighted people began to change their thinking, but they no longer aimed at cultivating a few top-notch masters, but chose to cast a wide net, release more fish, control the strong and help the weak. Established the prototype of today's Demon Suppressor.

With the passage of time, the structure of the Demon Suppressor has gradually been improved.

Why can’t the Demon Suppressor implement the principle of distribution according to work?

A very important problem is that the demon suppressor does not have a specific loyal object.

They are not subordinates of an emperor or strongman. Although their actions are admirable, their merit cannot be directly assessed.What is merit? Merit is a quantitative assessment of what people deserve after serving a higher existence.

To put it simply, the Demon Suppressors should be fighting for the entire human race. They have made contributions to mankind, but this racial contribution cannot be quantified.

The demon town group is not a power organization, or deliberately downplayed the organizational structure, but presents a loose alliance of exorcists with the same philosophy.

Basically, every demon-suppressor guards his own territory, using various identities as a cover to dispel evil and slay demons, either openly or covertly.

Of course, there are some deeper reasons, but I won’t go into details here.

In this world, the truth is like a curse. Knowing too much without insufficient strength is a fatal injury.

Ergou, as an apprentice of the Demon Suppressor who has not yet graduated from the teacher, no matter how smart and wise he is, his understanding of the group of Demon Suppressors is too shallow, all because of his lack of strength.

After Taoist Shi told some things that ordinary demon suppressors like Ergou and Liu Bao could barely know, he directly chased them away.

Ergou and Liu Bao each took their own donkeys, turned across the cross street, and walked side by side along the street west of Qishengyuan towards Chongming Gate in the south.

On the way, the two parties exchanged names and places of origin, and talked about their respective situations.

There was no need for Ergou to say much. He just picked up some interesting things from the past year, but Liu Bao was amazed. He just said that children with a good master are different.

In comparison, Liu Bao's life was rather miserable.His father was a civilian husband because he was transporting grain and grass to Shaanxi, but he was attacked and killed by the Xixia people. Then his mother remarried a widower with the same surname, and then gave birth to a boy.

Liu Bao, who was still underage at the time, was sent to Lucheng for inspection by his elders. [Lingguan General] Dong Youdao served as an apprentice and took the opportunity to privately divide the family property left by his father - three acres of dry land.

Liu Bao had been working under that [Lingguan General] for seven or eight years. Although he was not taught his true skills by Dong Youdao, he was still hard-working, down-to-earth and eager to learn. He half-studied and half-explored his skills and put them on the map. Considered a good hand.He and a group of companions also worked for Dong Youdao, and they were quite familiar with some conventional methods and taboos to ward off evil spirits. After all, they were all tested by his "workmates" with their lives.

Just when Liu Bao thought that he was destined to be driven by Dong Youdao, and would eventually die in a certain battle with demons, his mother brought that cheap brother to find him.

It turned out that Emperor Zhezong raised a large number of troops in the northwest after taking office and mobilized young men from all over the country to serve as auxiliary troops. The stepfather with the same surname also followed in the footsteps of Liu Bao's biological father.

After the news of the death came from the army, his mother wanted to remarry, but before remarrying, she sent her half-brother to Liu Bao.

From then on, there was a concern in Liu Bao's life, and then he was expelled from the house by [Lingguan General] Dong Youdao.In desperation, Liu Bao took his younger brother to wander around the rivers and lakes. He was good at repairing. Although he usually lived in the wind and slept in the open, he never suffered from hunger and poverty. He occasionally did some things to dispel evil spirits and subjugate demons.

Ergou looked at Liu Bao's mature face and asked curiously: "Brother Liu, how old are you?"

Liu Bao smiled bitterly, but said: "Brother Ergou is not the first to ask me this question. I was born in April of the first year of Yuanfeng, and I am twenty-one years old (according to tradition, children born in the first half of the year are two years older." ), I’m still young, I just look older.”

Ergou smiled and said, "That's it. Brother Liu, don't be surprised. I'm just a little curious, but I don't know what your half-brother looks like?"

Speaking of his own brother, Liu Bao became interested. He smiled and said: "Even though my brother is only nine years old, he is a real fierce man. Now he is just a child, but his body is almost as strong as mine. He has some natural supernatural powers, a rather good-looking appearance, and a fighting spirit..."

The two of them were chatting and laughing, but they passed by the embassy of the Liao Kingdom before going out of Chongming Gate, and Ergou paid some money to pass the livestock.

But Liu Bao left his brother near Taixue, which is south of Chongmingmen, because there are more scholars here and the law and order are better, so Liu Bao dared to leave his underage brother here to play.

It's just that when the two of them arrived near Taixue, there was no sign of the younger brother of the Liu family.

The two of them searched for many times, but found a figure in a remote alley, but the child had a bruised nose and swollen face, covered in dust and dirt.

Ergou was a little surprised when he saw this person.

Nothing else, because although this child has a childish face, his figure is stronger than Ergou, and there are some faint red birthmarks on the temples in front of his ears.

Previously, Liu Bao told Er Gou that his younger brother was called Liu Tang. Earlier, Er Gou had asked how he had the same name as the "Red-haired Ghost" in "Water Margin". Now that he saw the real person, Er Gou was convinced:

This is the [Tian Yi Xing] Liu Tang when he was a boy!

　Chapter 1 arrives!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)