Distant Mountain Battle Song

Chapter 36 Only good people can do evil
After having a rather in-depth conversation with the girl by the fireplace, Yun Ce regretfully felt that she was born on the wrong planet and in the wrong era. She should have been born on a war-torn Earth and become Yun Linchuan's lover, husband, comrade-in-arms, and fellow soldier... Their values ​​were just too compatible.

Yun Linchuan was an educated man who studied at Yenching University. He constantly quoted Yenching's motto: "Freedom through truth for service." In the end, he was the one who drove his president out of the country.

The place where Langpaoshui (狼刨水) shaped Yunlinchuan's wolf-like character, the yellow sand there gave Yunlinchuan a thick layer of loess atmosphere, and Yenching University gilded his loess layer with a layer of gold.

He can sit on the edge of a field with an old farmer, drinking sour water and talking about farming; he can also put on his battle armor and charge into battle; and he can wear a well-fitting suit and chat with foreigners in English while drinking coffee. Every state of his is surprisingly harmonious, making it impossible to attribute these states to one person.

Yun Ce believed that as long as Hong Guniang was given some famous teachers and opportunities, she could definitely transform into someone like Yun Linchuan. Because when Yun Ce gave some helpful advice, she did not doubt or hesitate, and directly issued an order, and groups of people left the migration camp overnight.

"Why do you trust me so much?" Yun Ce asked Hong Guniang curiously when he saw many people riding away on sheep.

"You're here; those people have already gone to Pingyuan City."

"Hmm, not bad, your concept of time difference is good. This doesn't prove anything. I can find someone to send the message back before you do."

"You can't fool me. When you heard that I was going to break through Pingyuan City, you seemed even more excited than I was. Do you have a grudge against someone in Pingyuan City?"

"No, I just wanted to see whether the rebels would massacre the city or open the granaries to distribute food after they broke through the city."

After thinking for a moment, the girl in red said, "They are evenly matched, what do you think?"

Yun Ce stared at the red girl's face for a moment, thinking that this woman would directly say that she would open the granary and distribute grain, but he did not expect that she also thought about massacring the city.

The young woman cautiously said, "Slaughtering a city can establish military prestige, and opening granaries to distribute grain can win people's hearts. Establishing military prestige is only temporary, and winning people's hearts is also only temporary. Do you have any good strategies to teach me?"

Yun Ce sat up straight, coughed, and said, "You come from a poor background, and the poor are your foundation. Everything you do must be based on the perspective of the poor, especially in the early stages. If you win the hearts of the poor, you will have an endless army and an endless supply of food. You can even contend for the world."

After thinking for a moment, Hong Guniang said, "When an army breaks through a city, it's impossible not to take benefits. If the wealth of the poor cannot be touched, do you mean to use the wealth of the rich to compensate the army for its merit in breaking through the city?"

Yun Ce laughed and said, "People all over the world have longed for equal distribution of wealth. Miss Hong might as well use this as a rallying cry to call on those who are dissatisfied to join us."

Seeing Yun Ce put on the newly made mask, Hong Guniang pondered for a moment and said, "Wearing a Nuo dance mask, you don't plan to join us?"

Yun Ce laughed loudly, "I am just a curious bystander. Tomorrow, I will definitely do my best to attack the city. Once the city falls, I will take what I want and leave to continue to find the excitement I want to see."

Hong Guniang stood up, took two steps outside, stopped, turned back to look at Yun Ce, and said, "Liu Chang'an's name is fake too, isn't it?"

Yun Ce held up his mask and laughed, "When you're out in the world, you have to give yourself an identity. Just pretend I'm called Liu Chang'an. After the battle of Pingyuan City, we have nothing to do with each other anymore. If we meet again in the martial world, let's start over."

After speaking with Yun Ce, Hong Guniang rode away on her sheep. Once again, Pei Chuan became the one who kept his word in the relocation camp. Before dawn, he had already beaten the drum to summon everyone, and under the pretext of moving the camp to a place with abundant resources to forage, the entire camp was to break camp.

Yun Ce and E Ji also got up. After a quick breakfast, they drove the sheep cart and migrated with the main group. However, this time, Yun Ce and E Ji wore masks. One was an anthropomorphic monkey, and the other was a smiling pig.

There are many scouts on the wasteland, and they are often full of curiosity about the large groups of people that are migrating.

Pei Chuan was a very cunning man. He had his men dress in the clothes of dead constables and walk at the front, making the lone scouts think that this was a normal migrating camp looking for food. When they came up to ask questions, he would kill the scouts with a barrage of arrows or knives.

If they encountered a group of scouts, they would warmly invite these people who had been living in the wilderness for a long time to come over for a drink of hot water and a hot meal. After these people relaxed their guard, they would swarm in and dismember them.

Some unexpected things are bound to happen along the way. On one occasion, they underestimated a bearded scout, thinking that the people trapped in the encirclement were already meat on the chopping block. Unexpectedly, the man was very skilled in martial arts. Not only was he not killed by the people arranged by Pei Chuan, but he also killed several of them. If he hadn't been killed by Yun Ce's divine arrow at the last moment, he would have escaped.

All the scouts were killed in front of the people in the resettlement camp. Many of the strong men in the camp participated in the killing. At first, they thought they were bandits. By the time they realized they had killed scouts, it was too late.

Several people, unwilling to rebel, fled the migration camp with their families, only to be caught up by Pei Chuan and his men, who killed them one by one on the desolate plain. After killing dozens of people, the once cheerful group fell silent, and those who had wanted to escape no longer considered running away, lowering their heads and continuing their journey with their families.

Along the way, Yun Ce killed one person. For the rest of the time, he observed the people in the resettlement camp. A rabble is a rabble. Pei Chuan, the strongest person in the camp, had gathered six or seven people of average strength and made this group of two or three thousand people follow their commands.

In reality, they had the opportunity to leave the group, but no one dared to raise their voice and call for help. Without such a person, their future was bleak.

This was a rebel army destined to perish. After witnessing the battle on the water's edge, Yun Ce clearly knew that the army led by Hong Guniang wouldn't last long.

Once the real army arrives, their demise will be a foregone conclusion.

Of course, unexpected events can happen, such as a brilliant strategist suddenly emerging from the ranks of the rebels, or a meteorite suddenly falling from the sky...

Yun Ce didn't think that a powerful instructor or a great magician like Liu Xiu would emerge from this team.

In China's five-thousand-year history, it is normal for rebel armies to fail; success is merely accidental.

Yun Ce had no interest in speculating about the fate of this group of people. After all, of his two hundred men who left home, less than twenty survived. Since this group wanted to revolt, they should bear the consequences of the revolt, and of course, they could also enjoy the abundant fruits of the revolt.

Eji was baking pancakes on the sheep cart, the kind of thin pancakes that are tossed into the charcoal fire to bake. Yun Ce told her to prepare more so that after this battle was over, they would run away and keep running, at least faster than the messengers from Pingyuan City who were asking for help.

If they couldn't outrun the messenger seeking help, Yun Ce planned to take E Ji and pretend to be refugees who had escaped from Pingyuan City.

Ever since he learned that there were top-tier cities like Chang'an and Luoyang in this world, Yun Ce wanted to go and see them, and didn't want to be trapped in the wilderness like a savage.

Eji laughed as the pancake burned her. When it landed in Yun Ce's hand, the golden-brown pancake was still scalding hot. It seemed that his hands couldn't feel the heat. He tore the pancake in half and gave it to Eji.

Salt and an unidentified herb were added to the flatbread before baking, so there was no need to add any other ingredients; the flavor of the flatbread alone was delicious enough.

After leaving Hekou Village, Eji became more and more lively, finally showing some of the characteristics of a fifteen-year-old girl. The strength, independence, and resilience she had developed while living alone in Hekou Village had completely disappeared in Yun Ce's doting on her.

Yun Ce knew he wasn't a good person. Not only was he not a good person, but there were no good people in the entire Yun family, or rather, there were no good people among those who played politics.

A politician's goal is to climb higher and higher. Climbing higher is their destiny, their duty, their lifelong pursuit, and the way to achieve the greatest degree of freedom.

Human beings have been pursuing this ultimate freedom since ancient times. Unfortunately, the ultimate freedom for human beings is the emperor. There are also many emperors who want to pursue freedom beyond that of the emperor, who want to live forever or become immortals. As a result, the result of this excessive pursuit of freedom is that they become a laughing stock for all time.

A venomous dragon was growing within Yun Ce. Having escaped the constraints of Earth's laws and morality, Yun Ce experienced ultimate freedom here. Yet, he was also rational, clearly knowing that ultimate freedom would be followed by destruction.

In order not to allow himself too much freedom, he had to keep Eji with him. Even if he didn't care about other people's opinions when he was doing bad things, he still had to take care of Eji's feelings. In this way, he would not appear so bad.

Only good people have the right to do evil. This is a saying by Yun Linchuan, which is also the summary he has gained from decades of being in a high position. Yun Ce decided to follow the political wisdom summarized by Yun Linchuan and continue to move forward, to be a good person who has the right to do evil.

If one gets used to the time in this world, then the long days will no longer be unbearable. Pei Chuan killed two more scouts. This time, he did not use any tricks to lure them, but instead walked up to them with smiles on his face. When they got close, he swung his sword and killed the two scouts.

When Yun Ce's sheep-drawn cart passed by the two corpses, he noticed that one of the men's eyes were not closed.

After passing through a forest, Pingyuan City came into view. Looking at the towering city walls, Yun Ce was very worried for Hong Guniang. It would be too difficult to breach such a city from the outside.

(End of this chapter)