Distant Mountain Battle Song

Chapter 49 Rebellion and social reform are two different things

Night falls slowly in Sheyang City. Yun Ce practically watches the sun set, but it's not dark yet. The sky is never truly dark, which makes Yun Ce very anxious.

Honestly, the little girl's death hurt him.

His initial reason for picking up the little girl was simple: seeing that no one wanted her and no one cared about her, and that she was sitting there eating dirt all by herself, he couldn't bear to see such a thing happen to her, so he wanted to take her back and give her to Eji to raise. Anyway, he had the ability to raise another child.

As a result, his good intentions became the child's death warrant, which he found hard to accept at the time.

He denied that the child died from drinking a little bit of the Yishu powder paste. He argued that she shouldn't have died if she had been drinking the Yishu powder paste all along. He said she died because she didn't have any Yishu powder paste. So, the question is, who took away the portion of Yishu powder paste that should have belonged to her?
Han Dongcheng, the official who hoarded grain?

That Duke Yu who never touched the ground from birth?

Or perhaps, the death of a little girl is related to the entire city?
Yun Ce found that whenever he felt resentment, he had to vent it. If he couldn't vent it, his thoughts would not be clear, and he would feel like he had a fishbone stuck in his throat, and he would have to get it out.

He remembered that he wasn't like this before. Even at home, he was a rare and cunning person, often ridiculed by Yun Linchuan as a poisonous insect in the gutter because of his cunning.

Ever since he enjoyed a feast of dragon eggshells with Ao Bing, he found it difficult to control his impulses and needed to vent his anger immediately in order to clear his mind.

Dragons are inherently capricious. The story of the Dragon King of Qiantang flooding three thousand miles and killing eight million lives in a fit of rage, though just a fictional account, ultimately explains the nature of dragons.

Feng An and Liang Kun, possessing the foresight to avoid dangerous situations, immediately discussed with E Ji the possibility of fleeing when they saw Yun Ce begin to bind his legs and place a pile of weapons on the table, attaching them to his body one by one.

Hearing that Yun Ce was going to cause trouble for the richest man in Sheyang City, E Ji was very excited. When she led four sheep carts out of the city, she deliberately left a large sack for Yun Ce.

Yun Ce tied the sack around his waist, and like a tiger locked in a cage, he paced back and forth in the inn. Unfortunately, it was still dark.

He couldn't wait any longer, so he put on a pig's head mask and left the inn. Instead of taking the main road, he soon slipped into the slave lane.

Wearing a pig's head mask while walking on the slave trail felt perfectly natural. The people here didn't care what you looked like; they were all just walking with their heads down, because walking with their chests out and heads held high was exhausting.

There was still a glimmer of light on the main road, but the slave lane had already fallen into darkness. People were still coming and going there, busy as ever, a stark contrast to the leisurely pace of the pedestrians on the main road.

Yes, life is real; it has a clean side and a dirty side, a leisurely side and a busy side.

Walking among the gray and white crowd, a splash of red suddenly appears, instantly brightening the world.

When the pig-headed man and the woman in red finally came face to face, the crowd that had been packed the entire road immediately parted, leaving the middle of the road for them.

"I only arrived in Sheyang City today, and I didn't expect to run into you tonight."

"Is the girl you took away alright?"

"Oh no, she died after drinking a little porridge."

"The porridge you gave her is too thick. You should add some soil to it. Once she gets used to it, you can gradually reduce the amount of soil. That way, she might be able to survive."

"Okay, I see. I won't save children next time; it's too much trouble."

"How exactly is it troublesome?"

"She's dead, but I'll still be busy for a long time."

"Liu Chang'an, you should be the leader, and I will be your deputy."

Yun Ce glanced at Pei Chuan, who was hidden in the darkness, and said, "You'd better give up that idea. If I become the leader, your team will fall apart in less than three days."

Hong Guniang shook her head and said, "No, I'll just marry him. That's all he asks for anyway."

Yun Ce chuckled and said, "What he likes is the leader of the rebels, not some rebel deputy general. Alright, let's not talk about this anymore. You're ugly, I didn't like you."

The girl in red laughed and said, "Marrying me is equivalent to getting the command of 20,000 elite soldiers. It has nothing to do with whether I'm beautiful or not. Don't you want to consider it?"

Yun Ce's frustration intensified, and he went straight to Pei Chuan and said, "I have no interest in being your leader, nor in marrying Miss Hong. Do you understand?"

Pei Chuan smiled and said, "Red Girl is a very good companion."

Yun Ce looked at Pei Chuan and said, "I don't know who you are, and I don't want to know. I suspect that the power behind you is enormous. The fall of Pingyuan City was not accidental, nor was your arrival in Sheyang City. Since you think Hong Guniang is a good partner, don't let her down." Pei Chuan nodded seriously and said, "I will."

Yun Ce smiled and asked Pei Chuan, "When do you plan to start your uprising?"

Pei Chuan laughed and said, "Now is the time. If we don't take action now, I'm worried that all the wealthy families in Sheyang City will run away."

Yun Ce said with satisfaction, "Have we already begun to redistribute wealth?"

Pei Chuan shook his head and said, "We've only reached the stage of opening granaries and distributing grain. We need to accumulate more wealth to equip ourselves, we need more cities, and we need more people to completely defeat this big man who doesn't treat us like human beings."

Yun Ce laughed and asked, "Will your leader become emperor in the future?"

Pei Chuan nodded and said, "Yes, we will establish a new dynasty. In this dynasty, the ruler will be wise and the ministers virtuous. We will formulate the best laws, build the best cities, and punish those villains who harm the people. We will change the names of all slaves and make them free people with land. We will also ensure that the people can live in peace and prosperity, each eating from their own land."

"Liu Chang'an, you are a fine man. Join us! With your abilities and knowledge, you will surely have a place in the imperial court in the future."

Yun Ce listened to Pei Chuan talk about the beautiful visions that many people on Earth had expressed after the Han Dynasty, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses.

Although Pei Chuan did not reveal who their leader was, Yun Ce could tell from his words that this was a battle between the emerging and the old aristocracy.

The emerging nobility wanted to wrest power from the old nobility.

Well, overall, this is what Pei Chuan and his group are going to do. As it stands, the organization is currently in a thriving phase. Even someone like Pei Chuan can recommend talented people to the organization. If there are many people like this, the future looks very promising.

Yun Ce wasn't interested!

If a revolution fails to eliminate the emperor at its root, then it is unworthy of the name of revolution.

"You all do your thing, and I'll do mine. This is good. With you all here, I think the poor people on the land of the Han Dynasty should be treated better."

After speaking with Pei Chuan, Yun Ce said to the girl standing to the side, "Congratulations on your great future and great achievements. However, you should only trust Pei Chuan to a certain extent, and keep the other five points for yourself."

Pei Chuan's expression was grim, for his face was darker than the darkness itself.

Yun Ce naturally ignored her, opened his arms and hugged the stiff red girl, then laughed and walked away from the crowd.

"How dare you be so rude?" Pei Chuan's roar came from the darkness. Yun Ce didn't care whether he could see it or not, he flicked out a middle finger and disappeared into the darkness.

Peng Zeng was a very qualified knight-errant. When his beloved Thunder Smoke Beast died, this loyal and righteous knight-errant used his iron hands to dig a large pit in the wasteland to bury the Thunder Smoke Beast.

Then, he walked and robbed his way through the city, collecting weapons along the way. When he returned to Sheyang City, he was once again a chivalrous hero with a bulging wallet.

He didn't want others to know that he had been robbed in the wilderness, so after returning to Sheyang City, he immediately fabricated a story about the hero Han Tianlei battling hundreds of rebel scouts.

In this story, Thunder Smoke Beast died from an arrow wound, but he also took the heads of hundreds of traitors. If he hadn't been unable to get supplies in the wasteland, he would never have retreated to Sheyang City.

No sooner had the story spread from the wine shop than Peng Zeng received an invitation from Lord Yu, who hoped he could help to discipline the servants in the mansion.

The hero, Han Tianlei, was highly skilled in martial arts. In front of Lord Yu, he defeated seven or eight head servants and not only regained all his previous equipment, but also a crimson thunder smoke beast that had just emerged from its infancy and had not yet recognized him as its master. He promised to enter Lord Yu's mansion first thing tomorrow morning to serve Lord Yu.

Yun Ce finally found the Yu Gong Mansion after navigating the winding slave paths. As soon as he looked up, he saw Han Tian Lei Peng Zeng leading an incomparably handsome chestnut horse out of the mansion. Under the illumination of the huge lantern at the entrance, the burly man who had collapsed and cried on the wasteland stood up once again, as handsome as the chestnut horse beside him.

Yun Ce originally planned to storm in through the main gate, cut off the damned Duke Yu's feet and hang them on the city gate, then fill the sack given to him by E Ji and escape.

Upon seeing the horse beside Peng Zeng, he immediately changed his mind, because the lance that E Ji had given him was really suitable for mounted combat, and could also be used in foot combat, although it was a bit too long.

So he followed Peng Zeng all the way down.

Because they didn't try to hide it, it seems that Peng Zeng discovered them. It has to be said that this guy is a very bold and confident man, who deliberately led Yun Ce to a secluded place with few people.

The so-called remote, sparsely populated places were naturally where slaves lived. Although slaves were not considered human, they were fortunate to have mouths, which made it easy for them to spread the news of his heroic act of beating up thieves.

Reputation is important to a great hero, and the reputation that everyone has is even more important to Peng Zeng at this moment. He desperately needs to use the life of that blind thief behind him to heal his wounded heart.

(End of this chapter)