My clone is on the other side of the starry sky

Chapter 138
"Brother, the new papers that Jiang Shu distributed to the counties were stolen by us. Something seems to be wrong!" Early in the morning, Lu Xuan had just finished practicing when he saw two dogs rushing into the cave.

Li Xingzhi and others came out one after another when they heard the sound.

Lu Xuan took the list from Ergou, looked at it, and handed it to Li Xingzhidao: "How have you been practicing your martial arts recently?"

Compared with these, he is more concerned about the strength of his subordinates.

"It's not bad. Big brother asked me to practice martial arts with Mr. Gu, and I seem to have gained some insights." Ergou said excitedly.

"The realm of martial arts and the realm of warriors are actually similar. It's a pity that it only reaches the level of strength, but it is enough for you to practice. Practice well and I will get you better cultivation techniques in the future." Lu Xuan took Huo Zhan's hand. He handed over the breakfast and said, "Let's eat together."

"Hey~"

Ergou was not polite and sat directly beside Lu Xuan, eating with everyone.

"Junior brother, are you not worried at all?" Zhang Yuanrou looked at Lu Xuan, who was like a normal person, and asked doubtfully: "Then after Jiang Shu's ranking, people's hearts may turn to the court, and what about the heart of the city?" Was breached?"

Li Xingzhi sighed a little and said: "The commander-in-chief killed the wealthy people too harshly before. It should be because these people stopped urging them. It is equivalent to helping Jiang Shu in disguise, allowing him to quickly win over the people through this method. After all, compared to us For me, the imperial court is the orthodoxy, which is more popular among the people."

"Senior brother is right, but the human heart is something. How can we be completely disappointed without experiencing despair several times?" Lu Xuan calmly drank tea and said casually: "There will definitely be an impact. After all, people want peace and stability. If If the imperial court can really keep doing this, then there won't be so many people in Guiyi Sect responding to it. Senior brother thinks, can Jiang Shu keep doing this?"

"Of course not." Li Xingzhi understood, smiled and shook his head.

"What do you mean?" Zhang Yuanrou perfectly did what a fan should do.

"It means that the roots of the imperial court are extremely corrupt. Jiang Shu's decree is feasible for a while, but over time, it will not be implemented. There will be many forces forcing him to put pressure on the people." Xu Yifan sighed: "This is just like you If you use force to push back the waves, it will be like a stronger counterattack from the waves."

As he said that, he looked at Lu Xuan and said with a smile, "But Junior Brother Lu shouldn't just do nothing, right?"

"Senior brother understands me!" Lu Xuan smiled upon hearing this.

"How do you do it? Do you need my help?" Zhang Yuanrou, an enthusiastic Taoist friend, looked at Lu Xuan with bright eyes. She liked chatting with these wise people, so that she seemed to be very wise.

"Since Mr. Jiang is so kind, you might as well help him become famous, Ergou." Lu Xuan looked at Ergou who was eating.

"Brother, what's the matter?" Ergou had food in his mouth and his words were a little slurred.

"There is nothing going on here in Shangyang County for the time being. Our people and the surrounding counties will help us publicize Mr. Jiang. We only need to let more people know about his benevolent policies!" Lu Xuan looked at Ergou and said, "So We cannot go against a good official who cares about the people, we must help him publicize more."

Xu Yifan suddenly said: "Junior brother transported the grain stocks of various counties to the mountains early. Did he plan for this day in advance?"

"It's not that powerful, but I know that if we want to succeed, it won't happen overnight." Lu Xuan shook his head, he didn't have the ability: "It's just to prepare for a rainy day and take precautions in the future. No matter what the situation, people always have to eat. If one day we are unable to obtain food from the outside world, these stored grains can sustain us for a period of time."

Guiyi Sect still has a long way to go if it wants to survive, especially after the fall of Tianshi. It is definitely the darkest moment for Guiyi Sect. This is why Lu Xuan has always limited his scope of activities. The reason for Shangyang County.

This would be a minor trouble to the court and not worth a major war.

"And this is a drought year here. Even if this didn't happen, the people wouldn't be able to harvest much food." Li Xingzhi added.

"A drought year?" Zhang Yuanrou asked in surprise.

"Well, there were only two snowfalls last year." Lu Xuan nodded and confirmed. He was from a peasant family and was quite sensitive to this, so after defeating the official army, Lu Xuan had been preparing for this matter. The food in the treasury, In fact, he had let him go a long time ago. The grain in Shanlitun was basically obtained by confiscating houses. The grain stocks in the hands of these wealthy households were several times that of the county treasury. This was also the reason why Lu Xuan could develop with peace of mind.

He killed most of the wealthy households in Shangyang County, and Sanyang County was not much better. Together with the grain collected from other counties, if Lu Xuan's men did not expand, this grain would be enough for them to feed them for five years.

As for the preservation issue, it was naturally Zhang Yuanrou who took care of it.

For Lu Xuan, since he had already prepared to abandon the city and base himself on the countryside, he had naturally already prepared for various possible situations. Lu Xuan had long expected that people's hearts would fluctuate.

After all, the imperial court cannot be all idiots, but the atmosphere of the entire imperial court has been severely fragmented in 800 years of inheritance, and the powerful class has created an airtight network during these 800 years.

This net is invisible but terrifying. No matter where you are, even the emperor will be bound by this net. Even if someone wants to do something practical, like Jiang Shu is doing now, no matter what the starting point is, he actually wants to do something. Something practical.

But in this network, no matter which direction you exert force, there will be someone behind you to hold you back. Jiang Shu knows this. Don’t others know the benefits of winning the hearts and minds of the people?

Of course I know, but there is nothing I can do about it. This network restricts everyone. Human relations are sophisticated and interests are entangled. This network is weaved so perfectly. It is a pity that in the process of weaving, only the common people are not included, because if the common people are included, Then there is not enough cake in the world. In other words, the people are the nutrients that maintain this big network. How can the nutrients be woven into the network?
Therefore, Lu Xuan is not worried at all about how much harm Jiang Shu's decree will bring to him. Maybe in a short period of time, the people's hearts will turn to the court again, but it won't be long before this people's hearts will come back doubled, so The consequence of this is only to make the people more devoted to the Guiyi Sect.

What's more... it's hard to say what this decree will look like when it reaches the grassroots. Even if the Confucian scholars who directly belong to Jiang Shu know the importance of the matter, they are not the executors who go deep into the people. Whether Jiang Shu's plan will be effective , there are two more things to say.

"In a drought year, I don't know if the imperial court will provide disaster relief." Zhang Yuanrou thought of the bad memories, and her face became a little gloomy.

"Disaster relief will definitely be provided, but it's hard to say how much of it will reach the hands of the people." Li Xingzhi sighed.

"Do you think the emperor knows that these ministers are corrupt? Why don't you kill all those corrupt officials like your junior brother?" Zhang Yuanrou asked.

"How to kill?" Lu Xuan said with a smile when he heard this: "The corrupt official in your eyes, his family controls a place, the roads are built by his family, the taxes are collected by his family, he has no private soldiers, but his family supports thousands of families Ding, you have also seen the food. It is more than the treasuries of various places. Many of the children in the family may be serving in the army. There are also marriages between families. If the nine clans are punished, one may be killed at once. You take advantage of the reason and kill It’s not a big problem, but if you kill people randomly without sufficient evidence, how long do you think you can sit on the throne?”

"Then send someone to investigate..." Zhang Yuanrou was mid-sentence and couldn't continue. The place is full of people from aristocratic families, how can your people investigate?
She had seen imperial envoys killed by thieves who suddenly appeared before. At that time, she thought the killing was a good one, but now that she thinks about it, she is horrified!

"Junior brother is always able to see things clearly. In this case, everyone's criticism of the emperor for appointing eunuchs and selling his officials to win titles is also a helpless move?" Xu Yifan thought.

"It should all be about seizing power, but the move of selling officials and conferring titles has really shaken the foundation. After all, the aristocratic families will not squeeze the people to death in order to control the local area, but those who buy officials only want to get their money back. , they can't afford to offend the local gentry, so they can only squeeze the people, and the emperor will have to settle the blame in the end." Lu Xuan nodded.

"Boom~"

At this moment, a thunder suddenly sounded between the sky and the earth, and the ground beneath his feet shook violently. "What's going on?" Everyone's expressions changed and they quickly went out.

But outside the door, the sky was clear, but the thunder was continuous. It seemed that there was only the continuous sound of thunder left in the sky and the earth.

The ground beneath my feet trembled. It wasn't an earthquake. It seemed like the ground was shaking under the thunder.

An inexplicable pressure came down, and many rebel soldiers with low cultivation levels around them fell to their knees uncontrollably.

"Enemy?" Lu Xuan glanced around with his spiritual mind, but found no other changes. He looked at the others uncertainly and shouted.

Could it be that the imperial court really sent the fifth rank to deal with them?

"It's a sudden change in the world!" Xu Yifan looked to the east with a solemn expression.

"Ang~"

There seemed to be beasts wailing between the heaven and the earth. Lu Xuan frowned and looked at Xu Yifan and shouted: "Brother, have you heard something wailing?"

Xu Yifan looked at Lu Xuan in surprise when he heard this, shook his head and shouted: "There is nothing but thunder."

Lu Xuan looked up at the sky. The mournful sound was still clearly audible amidst the thunder. What was it?
The thunder lasted for about half an hour before gradually dissipating, and everyone only felt a buzzing in their ears.

"Don't you have any other strange feelings?" Lu Xuan shook his head.

"There's no special feeling. It's just that the sound of thunder and the pressure are very uncomfortable." Zhang Yuanrou and Huo Zhan shook their heads.

"There is an inexplicable sadness." Yang Ao frowned and said, "It seems like a very important person is gone."

Lu Xuan glanced at Yang Ao strangely, and was about to say something when the jade pendant hanging around his waist suddenly lit up. It was the jade pendant given to him by Zhang Yuqing.

Not only him, the jade pendants on Zhang Yuanrou, Xu Yifan, Li Xingzhi, and Huo Zhan also lit up.

"Master (adopted father)?" Everyone looked at each other and quickly connected.

Zhang Yuqing did not appear, and there was only a simple message: Come to Dongzhou quickly!

Only four simple words came.

"Could it be related to the changes in the world just now?" Lu Xuan guessed, after all, the timing was too coincidental.

No one answered. Lu Xuan turned his head in confusion, only to find that the four of them looked a little ugly.

"Commander Commander, the teacher had some instructions before leaving." Li Xingzhi looked at Lu Xuan with complicated eyes.

"Senior brother, please tell me." Lu Xuan also looked serious.

"If one day, Master makes an emergency move, the Guiyi Sect will definitely suffer a life-and-death disaster. However, Junior Brother can choose to go or not. We must follow Junior Brother's orders in everything, and there must be no mistakes. Junior Brother's judgment shall prevail. "Li Xingzhi said in a deep voice.

"The catastrophe of life and death?" Lu Xuan's heart sank. What is the catastrophe of life and death for the Guiyi Sect?
He probably knew better than anyone else that Zhang Yuqing was going to die.

For the Guiyi Sect, Zhang Yuqing is Optimus Prime. When he is there, the Guiyi Sect is there, and he is the spiritual support of all the Guiyi Sect members. But if one day, Zhang Yuqing disappears, the seemingly huge Guiyi Sect will be destroyed. Once the teaching is over, it is gone.

According to Dan Chenzi, Zhang Yuqing's deadline is during this period.

Zhang Yuanrou and the others looked at Lu Xuan. This was the Heavenly Master's death order. No matter what Lu Xuan decided, they must accept it unconditionally.

"Wait for me and arrange what to do next. Let's leave immediately!" Lu Xuan did not hesitate. Not to mention personal feelings, Zhang Yuqing was really good to him. If he didn't go, the four masters Zhang Yuanrou might also break up with him. , Just talking about the strange phenomenon in the world just now, Lu Xuan had a vague feeling that it might have something to do with him.

What's more, this matter is related to the situation of the world. Once Zhang Yuqing leaves, he must understand the next situation as soon as possible, which is something he cannot do remotely from Yunzhou.

When the four of them heard this, their expressions relaxed. They were most afraid that Lu Xuan wouldn't say it. They couldn't violate it, but how could they stay out of the life-and-death disaster of the Guiyi Sect?

"Ninth Senior Brother." Lu Xuan looked at Li Xingzhi and said, "You have to stay. Someone must control the situation here."

Li Xingzhi nodded bitterly when he heard this. This was Lu Xuan's foundation.

"Brother Yang is not Master's disciple, so please stay. During my absence, Senior Brother will take charge of everything." Lu Xuan looked at Yang Ao.

"Don't worry, Commander!" Yang Ao nodded.

"Er Gou, remember to do the things I just told you. In addition, don't pay attention to Shangyang County for the time being. People outside are hibernating." Lu Xuan asked Er Gou again.

"Brother, don't worry, Ergou understands." Ergou nodded.

"Tell Lao Yang to practice hard and break through the transformation state as soon as possible. Don't worry about anything else."

"Yes!"

Lu Xuan recruited several more confidants, and after giving instructions one by one, he got on Zhang Yuanrou's wine gourd and headed straight for Dongzhou...

(End of this chapter)