Chapter 202: Treat Death As Homecoming
"It's not easy for Yue Buqun, fighting on two fronts." Shi Qiang said that Yue Buqun was really very thoughtful. He looked for the "Evil Sword Manual" and attended the conference at the same time, without any delay.
"The Lin family is also unlucky. They are innocent of the crime of harboring a jade. The Qingcheng sect found out about the "Evil Sword Manual" in their family, causing the family to be destroyed." Shi Qiang knew very well that the "Evil Sword Manual" was not that powerful. But it is very attractive to people in the world who want to make progress.
"Actually, it's not that Yue Buqun is incompetent in martial arts, but in terms of ability. He has the Huashan Sword Technique and the Zixia Magic Kung Fu. He doesn't need the evil sword manual at all. He just needs to practice his existing martial arts. If he can't practice it, it's not because he is incompetent in martial arts. , but he himself can't do it." Shi Qiang believes that Yue Buqun has no self-awareness, so he is a gentleman first and then a hypocrite, trying to find a way out step by step, but being a hypocrite also requires ability, benevolence, justice, propriety, wisdom, and trust.
A gentleman needs benevolence, justice, propriety, wisdom and trust, and a hypocrite also needs benevolence, justice, propriety, wisdom and trust. The four of them also need benevolence, justice, propriety, wisdom and trust.
Benevolence is the distribution relationship, righteousness is the social contract, etiquette is the boundary of rights and obligations, wisdom is ability, and trust is credibility. Gentlemen, hypocrites, and villains only have different stances, but the rules for doing things are the same.
Even if a thief wants to become bigger and stronger, he still needs benevolence, justice, propriety, wisdom and trust. Only in this way can he strengthen his team and form a force. This is called the thief's way.
Gentlemen and hypocrites both need to be subject to material limitations. A person without ability will not be successful when he is a gentleman, and he will not be successful when he is a hypocrite.
Because many times, success is not a matter of position, but a matter of Ability. Whether it's for himself or Huashan, Yue Buqun's stance needs Ability to support it. Without Ability, he cannot revitalize Huashan, nor can he strengthen himself.
It's a pity that Yue Buqun obviously has no self-awareness. He personally went to the Fuwei Escort Agency and asked the eldest disciple to attend the Golden Basin Washing Ceremony, and his little abacus was rattling.
Lin Pingzhi is experiencing a low point in his life because he mistakenly killed a disciple of the Qingcheng Sect, resulting in the death of his family. Then he and his parents wanted to escape far away, but they still couldn't escape. In order to protect him, his parents blocked the pursuit of his life and death, and he met Tuozi Mufeng, who turned out to be a bad guy.
This is the crime of a man who is innocent and possesses a jade. Even if the Lin family offends the Qingcheng sect, the crime will not lead to the annihilation of the family. But others know that the "Evil Sword Manual" is in the Lin family, so everyone comes to rob it, use coercion, inducement, deception and cajoling, and use all methods. pole.
But what was helpless was that Lin Pingzhi didn't know the existence of the sword manual at all. His father did know, but he would rather die than tell anyone. Between the life of his family and the sword manual, he chose to protect the sword manual rather than his life.
"If I have to say it, maybe the "Evil Sword Manual" represents a qualification. If it is lost, the Lin family will not be able to maintain its status in the world, so it must protect the secret book. Just like in some countries, if a woman falls in love with a low-caste man, That family can kill it with honor. The status of the family is far more important than the lives of family members. The Lin family is definitely not alone. If their lives are gone, they still have relatives. But if the status is gone, it is really gone, and it is difficult to recover. 々." Shi Qiang believes that the Lin family would rather give up their lives to protect the secret book [because of their qualifications in the arena.
Because only with secrets can one be qualified. Without secrets, the Lin family would be invisible to the public. This is a very cruel thing. Just like the imperial examination, if the third generation has no fame, it becomes a cold status.
Warriors and scholar-bureaucrats are actually similar, both cruel. After all, their qualifications do not come from blood, but from knowledge. Secrets are knowledge. Without secrets, there is no qualification.
Therefore, people can die, but they cannot buy to accompany Zhou.
Once you lose your qualifications, it will be very difficult to get them back.
There are many Leng Ji families, and the competition is very fierce. Thousands of troops cross the single-plank bridge. Once a hot status becomes a cold status, it is really difficult to recover.
The same goes for the Fuwei Escort Agency. Our ancestors relied on the "Evil Sword Manual" to finally gain a foothold in the world and lived peacefully for hundreds of years. Their families were prosperous and they lived a healthy life. The warriors of the same era had long since died out, but the Fuwei Escort Agency could be passed down for hundreds of years. , this is the status of the world. Once this thing is gone, it cannot be restored.
This is why Yue Buqun has always wanted to revive Huashan, and why Zuo Lengchan is determined to unify the Five Mountains Sword Sect. In fact, it is a game, that is, sailing against the current or retreating if you do not advance.
This is not to say that knights are really carefree. The world is also ranked based on seniority. Each martial art has to occupy an ecological niche. Once it declines, it will be replaced immediately. It is very cruel. From a historical point of view, this kind of elimination has happened too many times, including Xiaoyao Sect, Beggar Clan, Mantuo Villa, Juxian Villa, Quanzhen Sect, Tomb Sect, Peach Blossom Island, Mingjiao...
Too many sects that were once prosperous were eliminated overnight. The old sects were eliminated, and new sects emerged. The Five Mountains Sword Sect and the Sun and Moon God Sect also rose up again after the old sects were eliminated.
In the past, everyone practiced martial arts, and only those with noble blood were qualified to practice martial arts. It was based on bloodline. But with the development of the times, more bloodless warriors formed sects and attacked the nobles. In the end, the nobles had to compromise and join the sect.
So the competition between sects began. Naturally, sects do not look at bloodline, but inheritance, and the embodiment of inheritance is the secret book.
Which sect has more secrets and which sect has more secrets will be able to attract more students and pass it on better. Every sect is walking on thin ice, but it still cannot escape success or failure.
In the end, the sects that can exist for a long time are definitely not pure martial arts sects, but sects such as Shaolin and Wudang that combine religion with martial arts. This proves that martial arts alone cannot survive for a long time and will starve to death.
The Fuwei Escort Bureau is a small force that lives in a corner. There are so many in the world. Once eliminated, it is absolutely impossible to rise again.
"So secrets are qualifications. People can die, but qualifications cannot be lost." Shi Qiang also lamented that it is not easy for people in the martial arts world, and they work hard to maintain their qualifications.
Qualifications are like a driver's license. You can drive if you have a driver's license, but you cannot drive if you don't have a driver's license.
"But no matter how hard they try, it's useless. The world as a whole is weak, and eventually their qualifications will have to be eliminated. Just like the scholar-officials, they will eventually be eliminated, because the scholar-officials no longer have the ability to pioneer and enterprising, and only want to maintain their One's own qualifications means that one has lost his revolutionary nature. Revolution, revolution, revolutionizes one's own life. If a person is not revolutionary, even if he wins, it is just a story of a knight defeating the dragon and eventually becoming the dragon." Shi Qiang knows very well that if it is not revolutionary, it will naturally be eliminated.
This is repeated again and again in history. The aristocrats and princes at the beginning were revolutionary. The emperor of Zhou dared to say: Although Zhou was an old state, its destiny was restored. That is to say, although the Zhou State (Li Li's) was an old force that existed a long time ago, it was more revolutionary than the Yin and Shang Dynasties.
This is also true. The emergence of Zhou Li allowed more people to be enfeoffed. In the early Western Zhou Dynasty, inns were opened, roads were opened, and land was developed. The nobles took the lead, which greatly improved productivity.
But later on, the aristocracy lost its revolutionary nature. But at this time, no one can shake the status of the nobles, and the poor families can only wait for the opportunity.
The Chu-Han War for Hegemony, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the Three Kingdoms all saw the era of brief rise of poor families, but in the end they ended up with a drama of slaying a dragon and riding a horse to become an evil dragon.
It was not until the emergence of the imperial examination that a large number of poor families truly made revolution and showed their revolutionary nature, eventually forming scholar-bureaucrats. Facing the entry of Buddhism and the increasingly complex international situation, the performance of scholar-bureaucrats was remarkable, but in the end their revolutionary nature also disappeared.
Once it is not revolutionary, it will be replaced. The same goes for martial arts. In the beginning, martial arts were very good at saving people and killing people. However, with the development of technology, martial arts lost the ability to update and iterate. .