Zhutian: Starting from the Space-Time Merchant

Chapter 216 Zong Ze: In my youth, I too sought immortality and enlightenment (Bonus chapter for Silver Alliance Leader Nuanyang 1314)

"You are Wanyan Zongwang?"

Lin Dao glanced at Wanyan Zongwang's right hand.

His right hand was tightly gripping a sword.

Taking two more steps forward, she looked down at him and asked, "Still have the strength to swing your knife?"

Wanyan Zongwang gave a bitter smile.

Looking at his legs, which had been blown off, his eyes were filled with desolation.

"Don't make it so sad."

Lin Dao smiled casually, "Think about all the people you've slaughtered; they suffered more than you before they died."

"Now it's your turn to get your comeuppance."

Wanyan Zongwang raised his head, trembling, and said, "You are not a Song person."

"Hmm." Lin Dao nodded. "No."

"Then, why help the Song people?"

Lin Dao squatted down and said, "Culture, inheritance, and growth all originate from the same land."

"Anything else you want to ask?"

Wanyan Zongwang, panting heavily, asked, "Could you spare our lives?"

Lin Dao simply shook his head.

“Ever since you began to rely on force and deny others a way to live, you have had no way to live.”

"If you don't give others a way to survive, why should they give you a way to survive?"

The hope in Wanyan Zongwang's eyes dimmed.

Dying would end everything, but Da Jin would have to continue facing this terrifying monster!

At this moment, he began to understand the suffering of the Liao and Song emperors.

That feeling of powerlessness in the face of a powerful enemy, and the despair of having all pleas ignored.

I can say I empathize with them.

"Finished?"

Lin Dao, leaning on the machine gun, stared at him and asked, "Is there anything else you want to say before you die?"

Wanyan Zongwang looked at him with a puzzled expression.

What does it mean that I will die soon?
"No?"

Lin Dao took action, tearing off Wan Yan Zongwang's clothes and pulling off strips of cloth to strangle the wounds on his legs to prevent him from bleeding to death.

He reached out and touched his eyelids to check his pupils, confirming that he could hold on for a little longer.

They got up and traveled through time to Yonghe Time and Space.

This trip took quite a while; we didn't get back until about half an incense stick's time later.

When he returned, he was holding a stimulant in one hand and a red-hot iron rod in the other.

Lin Daoxian gave Wanyan Zongwang, who was full of doubt, a shot of adrenaline to stimulate his remaining life force.

Then flip it over and pry up the ingot.

He gripped the red-hot iron rod tightly and stepped forward.

The next moment~~~
Wanyan Zongwang stared wide-eyed, his neck stiffening.

"Ow~~~"

When Lin Dao returned to Bianliang City, there were already many people active outside the city.

They gathered food and livestock from the Jin camp and collected various weapons and supplies.

The members of the council, selected by street and alley, were organized and led to conduct statistics.

Chen Dong and a group of other students from the Imperial Academy were also present.

Upon seeing the immortal's tin cart appear, everyone eagerly stepped forward to greet him.

Stepping out of the armored vehicle, Lin Dao stood on the vehicle and looked around at the crowd that had gathered around him.

He pointed to the back of the infantry fighting vehicle, where a long cage made from a fishing net had been placed. "Take it to Yujin Garden and build a mound of heads with the heads of the Jurchens who died outside the city."

Chen Dong and the others ran to the back of the car and saw that the long, dark green fishing net cage was filled with the snarling heads of the Jurchens.

They were all carefully selected.

He had to be at least a squad leader; the heads of ordinary Jin soldiers weren't even qualified for Lin Dao to bring back.

Many onlookers were so frightened that they backed away repeatedly.

Even the students of the Imperial Academy turned pale.

Chen Dong was the first to come to his senses.

Suppressing his nausea, he picked up his megaphone and shouted.

"Rescue the people! Exterminate the Jin dogs!"

"May the Immortal Master be mighty! May the Immortal Master be mighty!"

The students, regaining their senses, also joined in the cheers, chanting "The Immortal Master is mighty! The Immortal Master is mighty!"

Humans have a tendency to conform, and soon the surrounding people also joined in the chanting.

Lin Dao accepted the cheers of the crowd without hesitation.

He truly saved the people in the city.

Without his help, in this city of over a million people, after the Jurchens left, less than one in ten would have survived.

After jumping out of the car, Lin Dao beckoned Chen Dong and the others to come forward.

"Have you never thought about promoting republican governance throughout the world?"

"We've thought about it," the students nodded repeatedly. "But outside of Bianliang, we fear we'll find no one to support us."

"Are you stupid?"

Lin Dao jokingly instructed, "Go find the abdicated emperor and have him issue imperial edicts."

"The imperial edict stated that from this day forward, the Great Song Dynasty shall practice republican governance."

"Anyone who does not accept this is disobeying the imperial decree."

"We will then mobilize the local people to distribute land and gain their support."

Chen Dong nodded repeatedly, "What the immortal says is absolutely right."

"Whose fields and whose land can be divided?"

“Of course, they are high-ranking officials and wealthy landowners.” Lin Dao spread his hands and said frankly, “Like the Han family of Meihua, they divided up their land.”

Chen Dong and the others were slightly taken aback, and quickly replied, "Immortal Master, I'm afraid these people will not agree."

"Of course I disagree. If you were in my shoes, would you agree?"

Lin Dao said nonchalantly, "If they disagree, just wipe them out!"

"You can find people among the people of Bianliang City to form political and military groups, and lead them to various prefectures and counties to promote political consultation."

"How about this, you go to the Huai River region, the Jiangnan region, the Jingxiang region, and the Sichuan region first."

"We must first mobilize the people, then use the imperial edict to stand on the side of righteousness, and finally use force to eliminate the local powerful families."

The collapse of any dynasty at its end is essentially due to the unfair distribution of wealth.

Forcibly redistributing wealth inevitably involves bloodshed and sacrifice.

Lin Dao assigned the imperial students to positions in areas with the strongest local powers. It was clear he was pushing them to be cannon fodder.

As for Hebei and Hedong, where local powerful families had been wiped out by the Jurchens, they were left to Han Yue.

Of course, Lin Dao knew that if you were to get people to work, you always had to give them something in return.

At the very least, you have to paint a picture of a delicious and tempting pie.

"In the council, there should always be a hierarchy of importance and responsibility."

"Whoever does the best will naturally have a greater say in the council."

The bait was thrown out, and the students immediately took the bait.

Their eyes lit up.

They've already started arguing about where they're going.

Lin Dao watched from the sidelines, smiling but saying nothing.

Bloodshed and sacrifice stirred public opinion.

The heavy responsibility of fighting to the death with local tyrants and powerful figures, and labeling them as traitors, begins with you.

Yue Fei and his comrades will avenge you in the future.

In the days that followed, as the Jin troops who had besieged the city retreated, Bianliang, which had been under siege, gradually resumed contact with the outside world.

Numerous boats reappeared on the Bian River, carrying urgently needed supplies to the city.

News from all over the country also poured in.

Taking advantage of the situation, the Western Xia launched a surprise attack on Guanzhong, capturing many large border fortresses.

In Jingzhou and Dongting, Zhong Xiang and Yang Yao gradually gained power.

Between the Huai and Liang rivers, massive bandits rose up in droves.

In the Jiangnan and Fujian regions, the salt smuggler Fan Ruwei conquered cities and seized territories.

Mutinous soldiers, bandits, and rebel armies were everywhere.

The whole world was in turmoil, and it looked like a dynasty was about to fall.

Lin Dao quietly stayed in the courtyard of Maqian Street.

They rarely appear during the day, instead going to other times and spaces to work.

When I returned home in the evening, a princess would be sent over every few days.

They claimed that serving the immortals was their good fortune.

In return, Lin Dao would also send Zhao Ji vitamin tablets.

Because there were too many people, even the RVs couldn't accommodate them all, so they simply renovated the houses and small buildings in the courtyard to house the princesses.

Thus, after waiting for more than a month, Zong Ze, Yue Fei, and others finally arrived in Bianliang City.

Accompanying Yue Fei to Bianliang City was the Grand Marshal of the Hebei Army, Prince Kang, Zhao Gou, who refused to obey the imperial edict and claimed that it was a forgery.

Yue Fei came because he was fighting against the Jin people on the outskirts of the capital with Zong Ze.

Han Shizhong did not come because he was escorting Zhao Gou to Shandong to escape the Jurchens.

When Zong Ze entered the city and learned that the emperor had been deposed, he immediately led his troops into the palace.

After taking control of the palace and arresting Qin Hui and others, they immediately arranged for the overjoyed Zhao Huan to be reinstated.

Only then did he learn that there was such an immortal in Bianliang City.

"A charlatan who spreads rumors and deceives the public!"

Zong Ze didn't believe in immortals or ghosts at all, and immediately wanted to send troops to capture them.

"No way~~~"

Emperor Huizong and his son exclaimed in surprise.

“Your Excellency must not be rash.” Zhao Huan shook his head repeatedly. “This is a true immortal; I saw him with my own eyes.”

"He single-handedly defeated an army of ten thousand, crushing the Jin army that besieged the city with overwhelming force."

"Even the second prince of the Jurchens had his head taken and cast into a mound of skulls."

"If you do not believe me, you may go to Yujin Garden to take a look."

Zong Ze hesitated.

The sudden and devastating defeat of the Jin dynasty remains a mystery.

Although there are reports that they were defeated in Bianliang City.

But Zong Ze had always scoffed at this.

If Bianliang City truly possessed such strength, it wouldn't have been defeated and brought to the point of collapse and national subjugation.

During this period, Zong Ze and his men were busy clearing out and killing the Jin soldiers who had fled to various places.

The captured Jin soldiers kept talking about iron carts, thunder from the sky, fire dragons, armored men, and giant creatures.

Zong Ze remained puzzled but refused to believe it.

Now~~~
He called to his generals, "Let's go take a look!"

The group rode their horses out of Xuande Tower and headed along the Imperial Street towards Nanxun Gate.

Yujin Garden is not far outside the city.

Looking at the official from the capital standing at the entrance of Yujin Garden, everyone gasped, their eyes filled with shock.

No one knew better than these frontline generals how difficult it was to defeat the Jurchens.

Even in the past month or so, clearing out the scattered Jurchen soldiers has been a difficult task.

It is truly unimaginable that when the Jurchen army was at its most powerful, with dozens of commanders of ten thousand households gathered outside Bianliang City.

What kind of immense power could possibly defeat them!
They even piled up the heads of thousands of golden statues here.

"Cough~~~"

Zong Ze coughed, stroked his beard, and smiled, "When I was young, I traveled through mountains and rivers, and also sought immortals and asked questions."

"It must have been because I was not sincere at the time and did not receive guidance from the immortals."

"Now that there are immortals in the city, shall we go and pay them a visit?"

The generals echoed in agreement.

"Let's go together!"

"Let's go together!"

Even now, Zong Ze still refused to believe it.

The heads of thousands of golden men, though they never uttered a word, undeniably demonstrated their immense power to him.

As for Zong Ze, he preferred to believe that a celestial being had intervened and wiped out the Jin army.

They would also find it hard to believe that the weak officials and the quail-like people of Bianliang could accomplish such a feat!

In the courtyard.

Princess Roufu, Zhao Duofu, stepped out of the RV with a flushed face.

With his head down, he handed the small white stick in his hand to Lin Dao.

Looking at the two bars on the stick, Lin Dao suddenly looked up and stared at her.

ecstasy!

(End of this chapter)