Longevity Martial Arts: Starting from Tai Chi.

Chapter 39 Peace is Built on the Edge of the Sword (for further reading)
Yang Chan followed the people from Qingyuanmen down the mountain, and they all left on Qingqu horses.

Qingqu horse is a horse from Qingzhou. It is suitable for crossing mountains and forests. It has good endurance and can be ridden for a long time. It is a good horse for traveling.

Although Yang Chan has never ridden a horse before, it is not difficult to master it.

A person who comprehends strength, physical fitness and various reaction abilities far surpass ordinary people, as long as he masters the essentials, he can quickly learn to ride a horse.

Although it is not suitable at first, and there will be some minor problems with the body, but you will get used to it soon.

Yang Chan is also a master of external exercises, and he has achieved success in Taiji health-preserving exercises and tortoise-breathing exercises. His body's resilience is far beyond ordinary people. It didn't take long for the unsuitable symptoms to fully recover. The whole process was very fast.

Compared with Yang Chan, most of Shu Yu and other official disciples are not in good condition. This is because they have just learned how to ride a horse, and because they have been traveling for a long time.

These physical conditions didn't make Yang Chan pay too much attention, on the contrary, what he saw and heard on the way made Yang Chan feel a little emotional.

Fortunately, he didn't go down the mountain, otherwise he might be among the corpses on the road.

Although there was a heavy rain in Qingzhou, the continuous drought before that still made it difficult for many people to survive.

With high taxes from the Qingzhou government on top, oppression from local forces on the bottom, and severe drought and natural disasters, many people could not survive.

If you want to leave your hometown and flee, you still have to face bandits and beasts in the mountains and forests, which is also full of dangers.

It is really very difficult for ordinary people to survive.

On the contrary, the local tycoons, gangs, government officials, etc. are all full of oil, but they still don't know how to restrain themselves. They don't treat ordinary people as human beings at all.

Seeing this situation, Yang Chan couldn't bear it, but he didn't become a saint. He knew that in this kind of world, only cruel people can live for a long time.

He doesn't have the power to change the world, so he can only blend into it and not be the object of being squeezed.

Qingyuanmen is very famous in Qingzhou. When passing through those county towns, those rich officials and powerful people are smiling and dealing with each other, which shows the power of Qingyuanmen in Qingzhou.

To a certain extent, it can be said that it is the local emperor. This is not a special case, but a norm.

Most of the 32 states of the Great Zhou Dynasty were like this, which was also the reason for the chaos of the Dynasty.

The imperial court lost control of the place, especially the place far away from the imperial capital.

These places are controlled by sects, tyrants, gangs, etc., and the local government also actively cooperates with these forces to squeeze the people.

This kind of situation is too common, and it is difficult for conscientious officials to persist. If it is too serious, even if they are accidentally killed by bandits, the bones may not be found.

In order to get revenge, these local forces will also take the initiative to ask the people to collect donations and gather troops to suppress bandits. Similar methods emerge in endlessly.

In the end, all that is left are officials who are in cahoots with these forces.

The closer these local forces are to Qingyuanmen, they must be the subordinate forces of Qingyuanmen, they are protected by Qingyuanmen, and they will make offerings every year.

It can be said that it is a level-by-level offering, and in the end most of the benefits will naturally fall into the hands of Qingyuanmen, the overlord of Qingzhou.

If there are affiliated forces who don't want to make offerings, there will definitely be various troubles in the future. If they join the hostile sect, they will directly send disciples to destroy them.

This is the most intuitive law of the jungle, the more chaotic, the more so.

In troubled times, we talk about strength and in times of peace, we talk about the law.

Peace is built on the edge of the sword.

This is the case in Qingzhou, Qingyuanmen is the strongest in Qingzhou, even the government has to give face to Qingyuanmen, let alone local forces.

The destination of Yang Chan and others was not disclosed to them in the sect at the beginning, this was to keep it secret and prevent someone from setting traps based on the destination.

Qingyuan Sect has already lost an elder at the level of an internal refinement master for this, so naturally there can be no greater loss.

Among Yang Chan's group of people, there is one inner-trained elder, two intermediate pharmacists and six junior pharmacists.

There are 20 elite disciples and several junior disciples.

Yang Chan is also among them.

If he reveals his external practice or the identity of a pharmacist, he can add an accurate number, which is a status symbol.

On the way to the destination, I met a little thief with no eyesight, but he didn't finish the robbery, and the people disappeared, even the bandit village disappeared.

In the end, Yang Chan also got a piece of silver in his hand, which was a surprise.

Most of these short-sighted bandit villages have not been established for a long time, or they don't know much about it, otherwise they would not dare to rob Qingyuanmen at all.

This is playing lanterns in the hut.

Although Yang Chan didn't do anything, he still watched those bandits die without any resistance among the disciples of Qingyuanmen. Although he was not used to it, he still endured watching it.

In troubled times, killing people is inevitable.

If he doesn't kill, others will kill him.

Most of the bandits were killed by the official disciples who came down the mountain for the first time, but Yang Chan and his assistants to the pharmacists did not have this requirement.

The pharmacist's assistant is mainly to assist in the rear. Under normal circumstances, they will not directly participate in the battle, but other official disciples are different, they all have to participate in the battle.

Now that there is blood, when the time comes to fight with the disciples of the enemy sect, he will not hesitate to kill someone.

It can only be considered unlucky for them to meet this group of blind bandits, otherwise the leader leader will find evil forces to practice courage for these official disciples.

This matter Yang Chan also heard from elite disciples, it is a custom.

Although Yang Chan did not do it himself, his mentality has become more indifferent. Now he must quickly adapt to this era.

Although there are dangers in Qingyuanmen, compared with the outside world, there are many fewer sources of danger.

If you are outside, maybe just seeing you dressed well and walking properly is a reason to kill someone.In just one thought, all the evil will be released, and then they will do it.

Yang Chan found that the assistant of the pharmacist who went down the mountain with the pharmacist was also much more silent from the excitement at the beginning, because only then could he realize more clearly that the danger of going down the mountain this time is not as simple as the good news sent back. .

Every good news sent back means that countless people are bleeding. These bandits who were exterminated are not even qualified to send back good news.

Yang Chan also practiced the flying claws on his body during the break, and he also practiced the magic sword technique. He is not a special case, most of the disciples are like this.

When one is aware of the danger, one naturally pays more attention to the Demon-Suppressing Sword Technique and other life-saving means. Those who need to practice just spend some time getting familiar with them, and they can also play a role at critical moments.

(End of this chapter)