Chapter 301 All the Same

Zhou Jiaxing was facing two patrolmen, both of whom were wearing yellow Taoist robes and straw sandals, with dark and red skin.

The two people on the opposite side also looked at Zhou Jiaxing curiously.

They already knew that the people in Xuzhou on the opposite side were not the people from the Jianghu before, but people from Yangzhou.

"Have you eaten?" Zhou Jiaxing held a glass can, which contained... pickled cucumbers.

It was already October, and the north was gradually getting colder. After there were no bean sticks and eggplants, the vegetables were winter melons and cabbages.

Moreover, they came from Yanzhou and Jizhou in the north, and they had dry food every day. Who could stand it? So seeing pickled cucumbers still made their eyes light up.

Canned food from Yangzhou was also a best-seller there.

Unfortunately, it was not sweet canned fruit.

However, they still had military discipline. Although they saw it, the two people were still very reserved.

One of them, named Ren Zhonghuang, said, "Are you trying to bribe us?"

"Hey~" Zhou Jiaxing said very experiencedly, "What do you mean by bribe? We are all working for the superiors. If the superiors are beaten and bleeding, won't it be hard for us, the people below?"

"I just saw that the two brothers looked kind, and I wanted to use these pickles to exchange some dry food with the two brothers." He said again.

"Oh?" Another Huang Tiandao, named Li Weiye. After hearing what Zhou Jiaxing said, he said with great interest, "Come on, come on, let's exchange!"

So the three people came over, and Zhou Jiaxing exchanged a can of pickles for a few pieces of dry food for the two people.

The two people thought it was a great deal, and it was really a great bargain!

Their dry food was just a few steamed buns, which had been stored for a day, and were very dry and hard, and very difficult to swallow.

But Zhou Jiaxing had his own way. He took out a small can of pickles, then broke the steamed buns apart and put the pickles in the middle of the steamed buns.

After that, Zhou Jiaxing ate with relish. Pickles are salty and sour, and paired with dry steamed buns, they also make the dry steamed buns taste better and not so dry.

His way of eating made the two people from Huang Tiandao learn to do the same.

The same food and the same way of eating brought the three people closer.

Zhou Jiaxing finally asked his question: "I heard that you Huang Tiandao also divide the land equally like us in Yangzhou?"

For people like them, land is a good topic.

Huang Tiandao wants to build a prosperous and fair Huangtian prosperous world, and there are many propositions and means, one of which is "equal distribution of land".

"Yes! We all got the land." Ren Zhonghuang nodded and said, "Now we are planting it for the people at home!"

"Then I guess you are like us, no one bullies you!" Zhou Jiaxing said again.

"This..." Ren Zhonghuang ate the steamed buns without saying a word.

"Ah! To be honest." Li Weiye sighed and said, "We were forced to patrol here."

"We are all Taoist soldiers. Who wants to come here? It's dangerous and unpopular."

If no one bullied them, why would the two of them come to patrol this dangerous place?

"Ah? I heard that your Taoist Sun wants to establish a fair and selfless Huangtian Shengshi?" Zhou Jiaxing said, "You are not fair internally, how can you be fair to the outside world?"

"We Taoist soldiers have different backgrounds!" Li Weiye is more talkative. He said, "Some people bring their own soldiers and servants to join. After arriving, they can immediately lead a team."

"Some people are relatives and friends of Master Qu. Once they join Huangtian Dao, they are the personal soldiers of Master Qu."

"Others donated all their property to Master Sun Xian. Such people can't start with us as soldiers, right?" Li Weiye said.

After listening to Li Weiye's words, Zhou Jiaxing understood that the backgrounds of the people in Huangtian Dao were too complicated, and there was no unified thought for reform, which easily led to friction.

How can the son of a warrior have the same position as the son of a poor farmer?

Even with the development of Yangzhou over the years, there are still some old stubborn people holding such ideas, not to mention Huang Tiandao?

Zhou Jiaxing can see clearly that Huang Tiandao uses religion to unite everyone, but there are not many internal problems. Because religion itself is oppressive, how can we establish a fair and selfless Huang Tian Shengshi?

"In our place, officers and soldiers are equal, and they all receive the same salary!" Zhou Jiaxing said.

"Is it true?" Ren Zhonghuang, who was chewing a steamed bun, said with wide eyes.

How can officers and soldiers be equal?

He couldn't imagine it.

"Of course it's true. The superiors don't beat the subordinates, and everyone shares the joys and sorrows!" Zhou Jiaxing said again.

"Even warriors?" Ren Zhonghuang asked again.

"Even warriors!" Zhou Jiaxing nodded.

Yangzhou has a system that has been in place for a long time, so that high-level warriors cannot beat low-level warriors, and it is a serious crime for high-level warriors to injure ordinary people!

Once discovered, they will be severely punished, and even beheaded!

"We in Yangzhou also value production and education. Warriors cannot express their value through force, but through production." Zhou Jiaxing said: "Just fighting is not enough in our place."

"No wonder you have some strange and useful things in Yangzhou!" Li Weiye said.

Li Weiye is different from Ren Zhonghuang. Ren Zhonghuang has been farming for half his life, but Li Weiye has wandered around before and has more experience than Ren Zhonghuang.

He said with emotion: "I originally thought that Yangzhou was similar to our Huangtiandao, but now it seems that it is not the same."

They have also heard of Yangzhou standing up for the poor and publicly trying warriors.

And more than once!

"It's all the same." Zhou Jiaxing said, "We are all ordinary people. We all want to have a stable life and a fair environment, and live a peaceful life."

"It's easy for you to say, but it's not that easy!" Ren Zhonghuang said.

Stability, fairness, and peace, three simple wishes, are indeed difficult for them to achieve.

"Anyway, when the fight starts, you two brothers should stay away. It's very scary when real warriors fight! Run as far as you can!" Zhou Jiaxing advised.

"I'm afraid it won't work..." Ren Zhonghuang said, "I want to chant scriptures for the generals..."

Before he could say anything, he was stepped on by Li Weiye.

Only then did he remember that the people on the opposite side were from Yangzhou, not brothers in the same tent.

You can't tell this kind of thing to outsiders!

It was also because Zhou Jiaxing was too friendly that he forgot that this was someone he just met.

"It's okay! I didn't hear anything. What happened today is known to heaven, earth, you, and me!" Zhou Jiaxing eased the embarrassment.

"Yes, yes! Let's just pretend we never met!" Li Weiye said quickly.

The three of them dispersed after that.

The two people from Huang Tiandao continued patrolling, while Zhou Jiaxing went back to sort out the intelligence they had collected.

They walked in two different directions, but they were the same.

Ren Zhonghuang and Li Weiye were pseudonyms provided by book friends.