246. Chapter 245 Human Heart and Ambition

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Chapter 245 Human Heart and Ambition

Axia was having dinner in the kitchen. When she heard the bedroom with the dining table slamming the table and shouting loudly. She thought something had happened, so she hurried over.

When he arrived in the room, Axia found that although the atmosphere here was indeed different from usual, she didn't want it to be a fight.

When Shang Jingzhong saw Axia coming, he quickly walked to the head of the bed to lift the cover of the quilt, and then took out a cloth bag from under the pillow.

Shang Jingzhong handed the cloth bag to Axia and said very tough: "Old He is braised meat, and he bought ten kilograms of freshly braised meat."

Axia was shocked. She saved money for a long time and saved the money. Why did she suddenly lose her fortune today?

When he saw Axia still stunned, Shang Jingzhong said with a little smug impatience: "If you ask you to go, go."

Although Axia didn't know what was going on, she hurriedly took the bag and went to the braised meat shop to buy meat while there was still some light outside.

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Why did Shang Jingzhong agree so readily as soon as Huang Xiaoshi invited him? The answer is very simple because he had enough.

Yes, Shang Jingzhong is indeed a person who has no desires and no desires, but this kind of desires and no desires does not mean that he likes to do hard work.

Many people pursue a life like a wild crane, but there is an important premise here, that is, you don’t have to dig your own food to support the whole family.

There are many people living in the mountains, but no one has the leisure to enjoy the great rivers and mountains.

Shang Jingzhong is indeed very capable, and his martial arts are excellent, but in most cases, he is worthless.

The first thing to understand is what a warrior is.

If you replace the word "man" with "utensil", it will be easier to understand.

What is a weapon?

In its primitive time, weapons were mainly used for the battle between humans and animals. When large animals were almost extinct by humans, weapons were mainly used for the battle between humans.

In other words, weapons are very powerful, but their functions are limited to the struggle between people. If they are separated from this special situation, they will have no use.

Take mowing grass as an example, a knife is not as good as a sickle, and a plowing land as an example, a sword is not as good as a plow.

Many people say that using a knife to cut grass and using a sword to cultivate the land is a waste of talent.

However, in real life, it depends on whether you have a big or small ingredient, talent or chopping wood, the key is that the user has the final say.

The value and use value of anything are different in itself.

In order to practice martial arts, in addition to talent and qualifications, warriors also need a lot of time. From teenagers to young people, they basically practice martial arts entirely before they become successful in their studies.

This also leads to the cost of raising a martial artist, which is much higher than raising an idle person.

Ordinary people are unable to afford such high costs, but people have actual needs, so the sect of the martial arts world was born.

The sects of the Jianghu are groups that provide force protection. They are divided into two categories according to their own Jianghu status and strength.

The first type is similar to a mercenary organization. Anyway, you can use money to do things, guard the house, or participate in armed battles, including doing black work and warding, all at this level.

The second category is the top level of the martial arts world and the existence of the six major sects.

Due to its extremely huge combat power, the existence of the six major sects has filled the gaps in the power of the court to a certain extent, and their deterrence can even play a role in maintaining social security and stability in a region.

To put it simply, the places where the six major factions have taken root, no matter what annual birth, the public security is better than other regions, which has also led to many people willing to buy industries in the areas controlled by the six major factions.

Once the population increases, the industry will naturally increase its value.

This is also one of the most important sources of wealth for the six major sects besides the Beggars' Sect.

In addition, the six major sects have their own other sources of wealth.

I won’t talk about religious sects like Shaolin and Wudang, but the incense fee is a large amount of income.

The biggest income of the Tianshan faction is to sell flags in the Western Regions where wars are in chaos and bandits are like locusts.

As long as you insert the snow-capped flag of Tianshan, whether it is a shop or a caravan, at least within a few hundred miles of the foot of Tianshan, no one dares to touch you.

If someone pulls the flag out, or causes trouble for you, someone will deal with it.

Although the Tianshan Sect ranks at the bottom of the six major sects, it is still one of the six major sects. Before the Tianlong Sect entered the Western Regions, its force was enough to shock one side.

The Tianshan School has two or three hundred disciples, most of whom are level 2, and a few have entered level 3, and He Weifeng is level 3.

You should know that in the eyes of ordinary people, level 2 warriors are extraordinary figures, while level 3 warriors are already powerful enough to be invulnerable to swords and guns.

Facing ordinary people, level 3 warriors can really directly drive Wushuang to mow grass.

In the Western Regions, because the competition is relatively less intense, it generally maintains the martial arts ecology of a hundred years ago.

Of course, if you want to plant the white flag of Tianshan school, you must pay for it. The payment levels of different stores are different, so this money is called protection fee.

Therefore, the origin of the protection fee is to protect you, not to find fault for you.

Then, any gangster with a brain knew to rob the shops without flags, and any gangster with a brain knew to buy a white flag and put it in.

(In the middle and late period of the Republic of China, the Pao Ge organization in Sichuan also became this kind of person. If you don’t add Pao Ge organization and don’t pay protection fees, ordinary people will live a restless life)

How widely the small white flags of the Tianshan School are sold? Just to say that even the caravans of Shennong Baicaomen bought white flags and planted them.

This is why the Tianshan School does nothing and is still so rich.

However, all this changed after the Tianlong Sect broke through the Tianshan Gate.

If a group that provides security protection for others is destroyed by another group of ruthless people, then who still believes in your deterrence?

This is also one of the reasons why He Weifeng feels that the Tianshan Sect is not necessary to survive.

The sign that took a hundred years to set up, once it was smashed by someone, either He Weifeng would bring the place back and teach Tianlong Yang with his backhand.

Or, just smash it.

After thinking about it, He Weifeng chose the latter.

The Tianshan Sect announced its dissolution, and most of the ten disciples around He Weifeng chose to join the Wudang Sect, which is also the safest way.

However, Shang Jingzhong refused He Weifeng and Fang Yunhua's invitation one after another.

On the one hand, although the Wudang Sect is also a major sect, its food, clothing and consumption are much worse than the Tianshan Sect.

On the other hand, Shang Jingzhong considered the issue of marriage.

This is the second biggest problem faced by most disciples of sects.

When disciples of each sect reach a certain age, they have to face "departure" and in fashionable terms, it is called "graduation".

On the one hand, it is very troublesome for sect disciples to marry. Unless the head agrees, ordinary sect disciples are not allowed to bring their families to live in the sect.

On the other hand, life is long. After the age of becoming a prosperous and prosperous person, if you cannot climb to the management level, your master will force you to become a teacher by saying, "You have achieved success in your studies, but you have no way to teach as a teacher."

The sect needs new blood, and needs young men with Qi and blood who dare to rush, fight and kill, rather than a group of old fried dough sticks, old martial arts, and old men.

At this time, the advantages of Wudang and Shaolin emerged. After all, Wudang is a Taoist priest and Shaolin is a monk, which is a lifelong profession in itself.

However, if you want to say how rich the Wudang Sect is, it is absolutely impossible to say.

Because, unlike the Tianshan Sect, which does not support idle people, there are many old Taoists in the Wudang Sect, which will be maintained for a lifetime.

Therefore, if a disciple of a sect wants to consider long-term development, then he will almost be an inevitable result.

Now, taking advantage of He Weifeng's ancestral property that had just sold the Tianshan School and had a lot of money left, he could get a few hundred taels of silver with severance payments.

After working as a poor Taoist priest in the Wudang Sect for a few years, if you want to leave Wudang, you may have to spend a few taels of silver.

So, Shang Jingzhong and Axia thought it was the most cost-effective to take the money and leave at this time. Moreover, Axia, who was very careful in calculating, arranged the money for the two clearly.

In this way, the couple's retirement life is already very secure.

However, the contrast between the great Tianshan Sect disciples suddenly became self-reliant working people, which is not something that ordinary people can tolerate.

In other words, in this world, it is not easy to survive.

All living beings, who are not suffering, and who can live easily and freely.

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Soon, Axia bought the meat that had just been braised, and the three of them sat around the table to have a feast.

Although Axia didn't know what happened, there must be something good in this cheerful atmosphere.

After the three of them had a full meal, Huang Xiaoshi said goodbye to the two of them with burps. The owner of the tea shop runs the inn, and Huang Xiaoshi returns to sleep there.

When Huang Xiaoshi left, Shang Jingzhong pulled Axia to sit on the bed. The two of them closed the door. Shang Jingzhong told Axia that Huang Xiaoshi was originally about.

Upon hearing such good news, Axia happily hugged Shang Jingzhong.

"A Zhong, you are a man who is always in the world and should not be buried in the loess like this.

You have suffered these days.”

His wife's words turned all the aggrievance in Shang Jingzhong's heart into endless comfort.

After all, who likes to sell tofu by promoting soy milk?

If it were the Shennong Baicao Sect who recruited Shang Jingzhong at that time, Shang Jingzhong would have nodded long ago.
To be continued...