No one knows what Li Chang'an and Ke Shouliang discussed that day.
The soldiers guarding the gate that day heard the prince making "hehehehe" sounds.
Meanwhile, Wang Xianzhi, far away in the Martial Emperor City of the East Sea, also felt a chill run down his spine, as if someone was plotting against him from behind.
After the discussion that day, although Ke Shouliang was still a prisoner, he had more freedom of movement.
He followed Li Chang'an around every day, constantly flattering him.
"Alright, alright, it's not like I'm going to kill your master. I just want to see him. Is it really necessary to be so worried every day?"
Li Chang'an sat on the deck fishing with a fishing rod in hand.
He thought that the reason the leader of the Fuqing pirate gang was flattering him was to plead for Wang Xianzhi.
But upon hearing his words, Ke Shouliang remained seated beside him and did not leave.
Looking at the calm sea, Ke Shouliang felt a surge of emotions.
Good heavens, this horse has been sailing on the sea for seven or eight days already.
He never saw the sea ripple or even a wave while he was on the ship.
It's always like a mirror, smooth and steady.
It's incredibly fast, yet as stable as it is on land.
When he went to sleep at night, he even doubted whether he was on land.
And what's most terrifying is the power source this ship uses.
It's not the oars that make it work, but the waves.
Basically, the boat doesn't need human power to move forward; it moves forward by the sea breeze.
Often, wherever Li Chang'an said to go, the wind would blow in that direction without the slightest deviation.
When it comes to a stop, it comes to a smooth and steady stop without the need for ropes or human intervention.
The entire operation was controlled remotely by the sea breeze, and the soldiers of Tai'an City even thought that this was what sailing on the sea was all about.
Once people are on board, the sea will take them wherever they want to go, so there's no need to worry at all.
Looking at the calm sea, Ke Shouliang often questioned the meaning of life.
Is this still the sea he knows? Is this still the sea that crashes with towering waves every few days?
It is said that the sea is the mother of fishermen, nurturing countless lives.
But now it seems that the "Mother Ocean" that Ke Shouliang met was a stepmother.
The sea that this regent of the Ming Dynasty encountered was actually his biological mother.
Moreover, Li Chang'an is now fishing so well that he catches fish every time he casts a line, one fish per second.
The catch this morning was equivalent to that of a small fishing boat.
That's why Ke Shouliang liked to follow this prince around, hoping to get some of his good fortune.
When we go out to sea in the future, we can enjoy the same treatment.
Upon hearing Li Chang'an speak, Ke Shouliang replied.
“Your Highness, although you think meeting my master is a small matter, the last time my master heard that you were going to visit him, he didn’t even bring his wife with him. He packed his things and ran to Tai Island that very night.”
“My master told us that he would rather see Yama, the King of Hell, than see you.”
"It was absolutely terrifying. We were practicing our skills just fine when my great-grandmother suddenly appeared with Ox-Head and Horse-Face. Those things were really scary."
Sitting to the side, Zhang Xianzong nodded repeatedly upon hearing Ke Shouliang's words.
It seems he wasn't the only one feeling this way; the other top-tier experts experienced similar situations when they sensed Li Chang'an's desire to meet them.
Thinking about this made him feel much better.
We share the good times and the bad.
Why is it that among all the peerless masters, I am the only one who has to live in fear and anxiety by Li Chang'an's side every day?
The others lived a carefree life outside every day.
The thought made him uncomfortable, so he wholeheartedly agreed with Li Chang'an's plan to go find Wang Xianzhi.
Ke Shouliang felt uneasy. He looked at Li Chang'an and then asked.
"Your Highness, what exactly do you want by going to such lengths to find my master?"
"do what?"
Li Chang'an smiled and said, "Confucians use their writings to disrupt the law, while knights use their martial arts to break the law."
"According to the investigations conducted by the Eastern Depot over the past few years, I have discovered that the number of people who died due to feuds in the martial arts world is actually greater than the number of people who died in the war against the Liao Kingdom."
"Although there have been fewer conflicts between the imperial court and the Liao Kingdom in recent years, the only conflict was the siege of Jiayang Pass, which resulted in the deaths of 140,000 people."
"But your Jianghu feuds are so common that you wipe out entire families. Last year alone, at least 150,000 people died in the Ming Dynasty because of Jianghu grudges."
"Among them, the number of ordinary people implicated exceeded 90,000."
"What kind of outlaws stormed the execution ground, what kind of bandits retaliated against the government, massacring several villages."
"Most of those who died were ordinary people."
"When I heard about this, I knew that compared to the Liao and Manchu kingdoms..."
"I should deal with the martial arts practitioners in the Jianghu, otherwise they will always think that they are different from ordinary people just because they know some kung fu."
Li Chang'an grew angrier as he spoke: "Although I know that we shouldn't condemn all people in the martial arts world with one blow."
"But there's no way around it; the feuds in the martial arts world have reached a point where they have to be controlled."
"I must put a pair of shackles on the people of the martial world."
"Let them know that no matter who it is, they must act in accordance with the law."
"Otherwise, they'll get used to being lawless and actually think they're above the law and have become uptown people."
Li Chang'an used to think that the imperial court was going too far when he watched TV, trying to control the heroes who pursued freedom.
Only now does he understand that uncontrolled force can only become violence.
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