Chapter 139: Immortality is difficult, ask yourself
Gu Dan was speechless.
The eyes, as deep as a pool, quietly stared at the little girl's thin and yellow face that was almost out of shape, and her hair that hung down casually like wildly growing dead grass.
His gaze seemed to penetrate Nannan's flesh and blood, and saw those unspeakable things deeper inside.
My thoughts take off at this moment, flying to another country that was once brilliant, heroic and tenacious, until it finally stands proud enough to make everyone proud.
He learned a lot there.
So Gu Dan knew why everything turned out like this.
As Xun Ke said: If we don’t delay the agricultural production season, we will have more food than we can eat. If we don’t use dense nets in ponds, we will have more fish and turtles than we can eat. If we cut wood in the mountains at the right time, we will have more wood than we can use. If we have more food than we can eat, and more wood than we can use, the people will have no complaints about life, raising children, and burying children.
If you plant mulberry trees on a five-mu residential area, people of fifty can wear silk. If you don't delay the breeding of chickens, pigs, and dogs, people of seventy can eat meat. If you don't delay the cultivation of a hundred-mu field, a family of several people will not be hungry.
If we earnestly establish schools and teach the people the principles of respecting parents and loving elder brothers, then the elderly with gray hair and beards will no longer have to carry heavy objects on their backs or heads while walking on the road. People in their seventies will be able to wear silk and eat meat, and the people will not suffer from hunger or cold.
As long as they do not violate the laws of nature and morality, the people will naturally live in peace and happiness, have enough food and clothing, and be spiritually content.
This is what is called: When great virtue prevails, the world becomes common to all.
However, the greed in the human heart is endless.
People who eat meat once every three days will want to have meat at every meal. People who have meat at every meal will pursue more abundant and delicious food. When these are satisfied, more extravagant and ostentatious desires will become more and more intense and will never end.
Emperor Zongming, who had great power over the world, once enjoyed the offerings of the entire moon. Was he satisfied with this? No, he still wanted to seek immortality and seek power beyond the peak of the world, instead of hoping that everyone could eat meat and wear clothes.
With such a monarch as a role model, those below him will naturally follow suit.
Maybe at the beginning, the higher-ups thought that collecting a little money was not a big deal, that a small amount of money would only make a family eat less, so would it be okay if they squeezed in a little? It would make the people suffer a little more!
When everyone thinks this way, and layer after layer falls down, by the time it reaches the bottom, it becomes an unbearable burden.
The things that we can enjoy do not come out of thin air. You can only gain by giving up! Only by giving up the things that most people should enjoy can we support the extravagant desires of a few people.
Pouring the tip of the rice, kicking the Hu, dragging it sideways, pushing it in vain, looking at the sample rice, picking up the Hu rice, digging the Hu money, screening box money, consumption, additional, internal deduction, granary money, screening fan money, Hu foot money, wine money, ticket money, bedding, favorable rice, Hu rice, rat-eaten rice, exchange rules, heart red, husband's price, laying, customs clearance table, middle partner, comparing Hu, lifting Hu, following the service, urging for exchange, opening for exchange. When it really comes to interests, a large number of unheard-of and unseen ingenious names are always able to emerge and upgrade in an endless stream, one after another.
It's so amazing that one can't help but marvel at the fact that human imagination has no limits.
This kind of plunder will never stop. When the lowest-level people can't even get a single drop of oil out of the frying pan, the objects of plunder will naturally need to be raised a little bit.
The first ones to suffer misfortune are naturally the wealthy but powerless businessmen.
The changes in Aunt Li's family are just a microcosm of this era.
The people who were so poor that they had no way out raised their voices, and the government, which was short of money, could only turn its spearhead and ask for another class to continue to take.
This shows that this country has reached its final destination. The foundation of more than 200 years has finally been completely exhausted, and the country's soil has lost its fertility.
Gu Dan saw it clearly.
He sees it better than anyone else in the world.
This country is beyond redemption and there is no reason why it can escape unscathed.
It is simply unrealistic to expect someone to turn the tide and save the people, and change this chaotic world. What Dayue needs is not change at all.
It's too late. It's all too late.
Dayue, it is time to dare to change the sun and the moon to create a new sky, or even have to overturn everything and start over again.
The only difference is who will control the new country that will be born in this decadent and aging country and what kind of philosophy it will pursue.
In this process of overthrowing everything and starting over, countless families like Aunt Li will suffer, and countless girls will feel that they are worse off than dogs - she still has the opportunity to sigh at this time, which is a blessing in disguise.
Mo Qiu saw this step, so he took three thousand Mo practitioners and risked his life to kill the Daqing commander first.
The world is about to go up in flames.
Before falling into the sea of fire, there will always be someone reaching out and trying to lift you up.
Gu Dan saw all of this.
How could it be possible that he was not touched at all? One of his best friends risked his own life, and the other one flew into the emperor's face, not because they wanted the rule of Dayue to last longer, but because they wanted to do something for the millions of people living on this land of Dayue.
People are kind-hearted. He asked himself if he could be considered a natural saint, let alone a very good person. At best, he could only be considered a good person with many concerns.
As long as he is able and not excessive, Gu Dan is willing to do good things without asking for anything in return.
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If possible, Gu Dan also sincerely hopes that people all over the world can live better and better.
But, he did nothing.
He is a martial arts master, the pinnacle of power that anyone can access in this world, a top master like Mo Qiu, Huang Chao, and the White Lotus Sect Leader, a person who is capable of influencing the overall situation of an area! However, his concerns far outweigh the power he possesses at this time.
In the palace's scripture library, he had seen the unfathomable and terrifying face of this world that had not yet been truly revealed.
That small iron ball, the size of a bowl, could only leave the slightest trace even if the master put all his strength into it, and it would be restored to its original state in a flash.
All of this proves one thing.
The waters of this world are deep.
And he is the immortal.
Longevity—what a good thing.
Even the immortals hoped for longevity, but they could not get it! He easily obtained what the immortals desired but could not! But this longevity is also a curse.
Curse him that he is destined to not be able to act recklessly and happily, curse him that he has to think carefully before doing anything, curse him that he cannot be like others who are careless and rush forward to risk their lives after saying a few words like "When people die, birds fly to the sky; when people live for thousands of years", they dare to pick up a knife and rush forward to risk their lives.
Because he could really live for tens of thousands of years, or even longer.
Immortals living in the mortal world are the true source of all evil.
Once something is revealed, even the slightest clue, being skinned and stripped of tendons will be a trivial matter not worth mentioning.
All the gifts given in the world have already been secretly marked with a price.
The price behind this immortality is constantly before his eyes, constraining his emotions as a human being in every aspect.
Living like this is really boring!
(End of this chapter)