Chapter 213 Dead End

Xu Jinglu cursed them as idiots in his heart, but he had to maintain a respectful attitude on the surface.

When it was their turn for the representatives of Mianyang City to speak.

On the left, he said, "My Lords, your opinions are great!"

On the right, he said, "We in Mianyang City respect your opinions!"

It only expressed one meaning, that after you have discussed it, Mianyang City will listen to the results of your discussion!

Can you discuss the results?

When he came, he asked his own city lord this question.

"If they discuss a result that is unfavorable to Mianyang City, should we accept it?" Xu Jinglu asked.

Mianyang City is to the west of Jingzhou, not far from Liangzhou. The city lord is a thin old man with an unremarkable appearance, named Gu Wanggui.

Gu Wanggui was half lying by the river fishing. Hearing this, he laughed and said, "If these bastards can discuss and understand, the Jianghu will not be the Jianghu."

"The Jianghu relies on strength! These bastards, who usually have no masters, all work together to maintain the balance of Jingzhou."

Xu Jinglu understood that only when Jingzhou is balanced, no one will care about the city lords and sects.

"Besides, after so many years, those real warriors have become the superiors, not the warriors. They..."

Xu Jinglu didn't understand this sentence, but he understood it when he saw the quarrels of these real warriors.

Real warriors are the superiors in the Jianghu, so they just need to maintain their status.

If the subordinates are disobedient, they will be replaced by someone else. If the subordinates rebel, they will be killed. They really have the power of life and death in the city!

As long as there is no external threat, they can live the life they want every day!

The happiness of real warriors is unimaginable to ordinary people.

Before Yangzhou rose, their Jingzhou was very balanced and restrained each other, and there was no situation of one dominant party.

Maybe it had appeared before, but they secretly united to get rid of it.

This is the way of survival of the city lords in Jingzhou for thousands of years.

If there were no major changes in the world, Jingzhou could have been like this!

But Yangzhou appeared, digging out their people, digging up their roots, and putting them to death.

In a rational situation, they should unite and fight against Yangzhou together.

But the inertial thinking of thousands of years has forced them to think too much.

Will I be used as cannon fodder?

Is it worth it for me, a real warrior, to fight like this?

A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. If I have to fight to the death, why don’t I change places and continue to be the city lord?

Xu Jinglu thinks they are stupid, but they are wrong. They are too smart.

They are so smart that they can’t suffer any loss and are unwilling to take risks.

In the world, there is nothing worth taking risks for them.

This is the thinking mode of the lord of a city.

As long as you can be the city lord, it doesn’t matter where you are.

It is normal to think about it carefully. In the unified dynasty, there are friendly forces who do not help others. Or an ally who takes the friendly army's home when the friendly army is beaten.

Expecting a group of city lords who are independent to unite for the same purpose.

It's a joke.

Xu Jinglu can see clearly that the thirteen cities in Jingzhou are not submissive to each other and will not give in to each other. There is no absolutely strong person to integrate them, it's simply...

Dead end!

Xu Jinglu is facing a dead end, and the Nanshan Sword Sect is also facing a dead end.

Nanshan Sword Sect's warrior Xiao Yanyu was resting, and suddenly there was a shout of killing in the sect.

In the blink of an eye, it spread from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain.

Xiao Yanyu was shocked. He casually put on two pieces of clothes, took the long sword beside the bed, and went out of the house.

He is a real warrior, and he is also a weak chicken in the Nanshan Sword Sect.

As soon as he left the house, he followed other brothers and sisters to the sect hall, and saw the leading warrior's true energy like a huge wave, beating their leader.

Their leader's Nanshan swordsmanship was completely flawed in front of the other warrior, and the sword energy could not break the huge waves of the other warrior.

The huge waves rolled a few times, and their leader was silent.

I don't know if he is dead or fainted.

Xiao Yanyu has practiced martial arts for many years. He looked at the leader with his nose when he saw him several times. In his mind, the leader should be invincible except when facing real people.

As a result...

You don't look good, leader!

"Surrender and no killing!"

"Surrender and no killing!"

The warrior stood in the hall of their sect and shouted at them.

Beside him, there were more than a dozen warriors, looking at them coldly.

Hearing that surrender and no killing, Xiao Yanyu and his fellow apprentices gave up resistance and surrendered.

First, they really couldn't beat them.

Second, according to the rules of the rivers and lakes, surrender and no killing generally refers to accepting the power of their sect.

Who would complain about cattle and horses.

So, Xiao Yanyu and his fellow apprentices were taken away and locked up for a night.

The next day, someone gave them some food and took them to a place.

It was a huge square platform with a black and white banner on it, which read "Special Court for the Trial of Nanshan Sword Sect".

Court?

What is that?

Xiao Yanyu didn't understand these two words.

What he didn't understand even more was that below the square platform, the people standing and sitting were all tenants, herbal farmers, livestock farmers and the like from their sect. Xiao Yanyu looked at those people with pale faces and thin bodies, and looked at them with fear.

When a warrior is in the Qi and Blood Gate, he needs a lot of food, plus he practices boxing and visualization every day. Where is the time to grow crops and raise cattle and sheep? He needs these people to support him.

Why did the people yesterday call these people here?

What can these people do?

Xiao Yanyu didn't understand.

What he didn't understand even more was that as time went by, the head of the Nanshan Sword Sect was brought up, and then these people mustered up the courage to launch a complaint against the head.

What "seizing land by force", "loan sharking", "destroying the whole family", "killing parents" and so on made Xiao Yanyu feel inexplicable.

Isn't this a natural thing?

What's so strange about this?

Isn't it like this everywhere in the martial arts world?

No one would kill their head just for these people's complaints, right?

On one side is a group of ant-like people, and on the other side is a Zhoutian warrior.

Everyone knows the value of Zhoutian warriors, right?

As a result, just as he feared in his heart, the group of people yesterday wanted to stand up for this group of ant-like people.

After the verdict on the Nanshan Sword Sect, the warrior yesterday, holding a knife in his hand, beheaded the Nanshan Sect Master on the high platform.

Xiao Yanyu's hands and feet were cold.

He couldn't understand why it happened. Why?

Why!

Why on earth!

The opposite of Xiao Yanyu was the ordinary people. They had suffered all their lives, and no one had ever spoken to them, and no one had ever treated them as human beings.

Now suddenly someone supported them, treated them as human beings, and gave them a place to reason.

They felt as if they were in a dream.

The name of social animals is mostly self-deprecating, but self-deprecation is the most real...