"If you don't lose, you won't win. I'm sorry, I'm a bit victorious. In the eyes of your real soldiers, it's really a bit despicable."
Lu Yu smiled bitterly and said frankly.
"Recently," the beggar sat on the ground slowly without looking at anyone. He just stared directly at the sand table and whispered softly: "I have been thinking, what the hell... is for a country. The most important thing? Expansion of territory should be a good thing, although it looks like some of my desires, but in fact, it? The people just like victory. The interesting thing is that the country can use it no matter what kind of things it encounters. A victory to solve! Victory will bring good mood to the people, and similarly, it will also bring benefits to them. Every victory is a feast of snatching. Those trophies return to the country and become the people. The most favorite thing. In its heyday... In Tianguo, you can see commodities from all over the world. Lingguo’s most precious pottery has become a rice bowl for the common people. It’s the casual clothes of the people... They have too much, even if it is lost for a short time, such as natural disasters, such as man-made disasters, such as rebellions, things that people can’t solve with racking their brains, they only need a victory... just It's a victory. So I have been pursuing victory all my life, but I didn't expect that in the end... the people would not be able to tolerate a defeat. So I kept asking myself whether it was resourcefulness or force, which one is right... "
Lu Yu looked at him with a look of confusion. He wanted to tell him a story.
Tell a story of... power.
People with power and people without power have two different ways to deal with one thing. But the root cause is the same, that is... the simplest method is always used.
Like a full meal. If a person with no power wants to get it, the easiest way is to work every day, sowing in spring, planting in summer and harvesting in autumn, counting the days with his fingers, so that his own food can meet the consumption of his family. There are certain things that they can obviously do, such as hunting in the mountains after farming, or trading with people for some petty purposes, or selling their physical strength to help other people to work in exchange for a reward, which can make their lives live. It's better, but... it's too difficult. They chose the easiest way to get what they need.
When you have power, you have power.
Cultivators, or people with a wealth of money, will not choose farming if they want food and clothing, because farming is a more difficult thing for them, and they have an easier way to get what they want.
This beggar is the same. He wants his country to be strong and his people to live a good life. Fighting wars within his abilities is the simplest thing.
So he chose this, there is no foresight, doomed to fail, he chose the easiest thing to do, but in fact it is getting harder and harder. When he saw the difficulties in the future and realized his mistakes, by then, it was too late.
Yes, the people can’t bear even one failure. It’s not that the people can’t bear it, but the kind of life that relies on war and plunder, the life that surpasses the people’s productive capacity, and disappears, and they naturally endure it. Not anymore.
This is a doomed failure.
But... Lu Yu didn't tell the story in the end. He didn't say so.
Instead, he sighed and smiled again, as if he wasn't talking to anyone but just talking to himself.
"Thousands of years... Every country will say this sentence, but everyone knows that this sentence is a lie. As everyone always says Long live... Hehe, it is not easy for a person, an ordinary person, to live over a hundred years old. Yes, but I still want to live long. This is self-deception. Or is it a good wish? I don’t know. But I know that the kingdom is just like a person. At birth, I was weak and could not withstand the storm. Then I was born. Growing up, getting better and better, stronger and more prosperous. Until the peak, it is equivalent to people's adulthood, and then... it will suddenly go down, weak, and aging. Every piece of skin on the body seems to be a burden. Wrinkles are too redundant. The skin is twisted together in this way, but there is no flesh and blood support, making them a burden. The bones, without the hard work of filling, make them more fragile, unable to withstand even the slightest collision. Maybe... Just like humans, humans learn to practice cultivation. The method of restoring to its heyday again, or even higher, should be the trend of ZTE for the country. But the person who cultivates is also a human, and will eventually age slowly, unable to survive the torture of time, and eventually die, just like the country Thousands of years? How ridiculous, as long as the country survives within the term of office, it is actually a joyful thing."
After Lu Yu finished speaking, he sighed again, looked at the beggar and asked, "You said, is this reasonable?"
The beggar raised his head, looked at Lu Yu, and suddenly smiled.
He laughed a little helplessly, a little cold, people couldn't guess what he was thinking.
"Originally, I was going to take this opportunity to go out, but now it seems... I shouldn't need it anymore."
After all, he shook his arm, and the palm-sized sign entered Lu Yu's hand.
Lu Yu looked down and found that only three characters were engraved on the wooden sign.
King Power Order.
"You won this brand, and you deserve it, but I also shamelessly want to add another condition."
Lu Yu arched his hands and said, "Please speak."
"I only hope that if I do not become the king of the subjugated country, the country will also perish, but I must die before it can perish!"
Lu Yu was taken aback, and then smiled bitterly: "I took it down, but... Seeing you are full of anger and your cultivation base is shocking, I just don't know how long you can live."
The beggar didn't expect Lu Yu to ask such a question. He was also stunned, and then he really lowered his head and calculated it carefully. It took a while before he raised his head and said, "Yangshou, there are still nine hundred years."
"Uh… "
The corner of Lu Yu's eyes twitched, and then he smiled bitterly, "I don't know if I can live that long, and you are obviously trapped, but this cultivation level has never fallen. I am afraid that there will be a breakthrough in the future. It seems that thousands of years. … It’s the most basic thing, hehe, it seems that I really accepted a very difficult and difficult task..."
"If it's not difficult," said the beggar, "you have already died since you entered the door of the end of the world."
"Well, I will try my best."
Lu Yu spread out his hands, said indifferently, but solemnly put the brand in his arms instead of throwing it into the storage bracelet.
The beggar looked at him and said, "Until you had a storage bracelet, I think back then... I also had such a bracelet."
Lu Yu smiled and said: "Some things should be kept close to your body, at least you can always be alert to yourself."
"That's good."
The beggar waved his hand, turned his head to look at the old man and the old official Jiujiu, squinted, and suddenly smiled, and said, "You are very good, but not good, but after all, it is still very good."
After speaking, he stood up and looked up at the high ceiling of the cave.
"How many years have been accumulated? One thousand years? Two thousand years? I can't remember, maybe only a few hundred years?" He muttered to himself, and then said to the old man: "You come and help me."
The old man didn't ask the beggar what he wanted him to help, but he cried for the first time.
Weeping silently, stepped forward, using the strength of his whole body, kneading a round energy ball in his hands.
The beggar looked around, nodded slightly, and expressed his approval.
Then he turned his head and said to Lu Yu: "There is only one chance. If it fails... I will fight you for another 3,000 rounds."
"Hahahaha!" Lu Yu said with a smile: "I'm afraid there will be no chance, but..."
He straightened his expression and said in a rare and non-cynic voice, "Don't belittle yourself, now in Tian Guozhi, you... are still a legend!"