From the power of space to the heavens 2

Chapter 1279 1278. See you in the past

The ancient Futu clan’s arrangements for Lu Yuan were naturally in place.

It's like the difference between appearance and substance.

No matter how embarrassing the situation is.

You have to save your face.

However, Qing Yanjing did not trust the ancient Futu clan's arrangement for Lu Yuan. Although it was not certain whether she had any selfish motives, it was undeniable that she did ignore the ancient Futu clan's arrangement for Lu Yuan and instead arranged Lu Yuan in her own courtyard, which made Qing Qingcang, the old father, so angry that he was helpless.

Of course there are disadvantages to doing this.

Bad for reputation.

Although Lu Yuan doesn't care about his reputation.

Qing Yanjing didn't care about this either.

But it must be admitted that reputation is indeed the first business card in social situations, followed by appearance, and finally temperament and talent.

Yes.

It might sound funny.

But that's the reality.

Ugly reality.

Because the essence of human nature is to seek benefits and avoid harm.

Also because people’s prejudices are difficult to change.

Therefore, for any normal person, when you hear that a person has a bad reputation, for example, he is not filial, or he is greedy for money, lustful, untrustworthy, or even petty, etc., you will naturally be wary of him and look at him with a scrutinizing eye, and the result of doing so is bound to be able to find problems in him. As the saying goes, when you doubt someone, this person is essentially unreliable, because when you believe in someone, you will not doubt him. There is another way to say the same thing, that is, if you test a person's sincerity, the final answer you get is always no, because when you choose to test, this person's sincerity is no longer important. Even if the test shows that this person is sincere to you, you will choose to test again after a period of time. It's just that the significance of this repeated testing will become a confirmation of the previous result, rather than a simple verification of whether the person is sincere or not. Therefore, reputation is of great significance in normal social interactions, and few people can ignore this.

Let's be more realistic.

Song Jiang, the timely rain in Water Margin, relied on his reputation to escape death several times and made friends with many heroes. Even though he was essentially a villain who sold his brothers to get to the top, many people were fooled by him before his true nature was exposed.

of course.

Times are different and we cannot generalize.

Perhaps for Song Jiang, what he did was indeed right given the context of the times, because no one wants to bear the reputation of being a traitor.

But he chose to accept the amnesty.

It was essentially a wrong move.

To put it more bluntly.

You beat the vulnerable Song soldiers and made them cry out in pain. They were defeated several times, which made many generals and civil and military officials lose face. Even the emperor was embarrassed and terrified.

Can you get anything good if you bow your head?

Yes.

The right to disseminate public opinion lies in the hands of the imperial court.

Your influence is limited to the Liangshan Marsh area.

In other words.

For ordinary people in other places.

If the imperial court says you are traitors, they will believe that you are traitors.

Only the common people in the Liangshan Marsh area did not believe it.

Thus.

Not hard to predict.

It will inevitably lead to eternal infamy.

Will it be remembered in history or forever infamous?

This is the choice before Song Jiang.

But the problem is that, although you can bow your head, you must hold a fatal trump card in your hand, otherwise, you will be controlled to death by the court.

Therefore, even if you don't want to bear the reputation of a traitor.

In other words, to find a future for the brothers.

It is indeed enjoyable to eat meat with big mouthfuls and drink wine with big bowls, and it does not matter if no one cares, but one's reputation and status in society are obviously the lowest.

It's like businessmen and intellectuals.

Some businessmen in small cities may have tens of millions of dollars at home and own several shops, and they have a very high status in the eyes of ordinary people.

But what if it’s a university professor?

Don’t underestimate the fact that university professors don’t make much money.

of course.

The term "poor" here is only relative.

Under normal circumstances, university professors would not come up with tens of millions at once, or have any businesses under their control, although there are some exceptions. For example, professors who have truly produced some research results and registered patents can live off the patents for the rest of their lives. But then again, there are not many professors who really have this ability, because patents are generally commercialized if they want to be widely used, and militarization is not impossible. However, professors who can conduct research that can reach the level of militarization are themselves national treasures, and their status cannot be measured by money. In short, university professors are definitely poor compared to those businessmen, but compared to ordinary people, they are definitely rich, so the word used to describe them is often "noble", which is also a new word through fusion.

However, although they cannot compare with businessmen in wealth.

In social status.

University professors are far better than businessmen.

It’s the same principle as the president of a university.

Many people don't understand until they enter society.

It turns out that the highest-ranking person you can come into contact with in your life is often the president of the university you attended when you were young. Even if your family is worth hundreds of millions, or even tens of billions or hundreds of billions, you cannot be on equal footing with the president of such a university. Of course, if you say you donate hundreds of millions of dollars in scholarships to the school, or fund the school to build a building, that's another matter.

Therefore, status and fame go hand in hand.

No one wants to be called a traitor.

Therefore, in that context at that time.

Because the Song Dynasty shared the world with the literati and officials.

It is unrealistic to start a rebellion.

The limit is to establish one's own territory.

At least, it would not be reasonable to rebel as long as the Zhao Song royal family did not commit any immoral acts.

Basically, it has to wait until around the Jingkang Incident.

At that time, rebellion was justified.

Because it can raise a banner.

It is called to resist the barbarians and recover the land of the Han Dynasty.

However, even if he wanted to abandon the identity of a rebel and obtain a legitimate identity, such as some official positions, the capital for him to roam freely in the world of pleasure would always be the soldiers in Liangshan Marsh.

To put it more bluntly.

You can accept the amnesty.

But you must listen to the announcement and not the instructions.

The most basic point is that the control of troops must be in your own hands.

It can even be said that the ideal state should be that some people hold important positions in the court, and some people stay in the local area as a backup. After the amnesty, how far Song Jiang can go depends entirely on the soldiers and horses in his hands. With strong soldiers and horses, even if he cannot become a king of a different surname, he can still hold an important position in the court. At least he cannot be manipulated by anyone who wants to, because the struggle in officialdom is like this. When you have a certain ability to overturn the table, any conspiracy will be limited to a pattern that does not harm your foundation. In other words, even if the Zhao Song royal family and Gao Qiu and others want to kill you, Song Jiang, they have to consider first whether after your death, the many soldiers and horses on Liangshan Marsh will rebel again, under the banner of revenge for you, and cause chaos in the world again.

of course.

The most ideal solution would be the Erlang Shen template.

I, Song Jiang, will not join the central government. I will stay in Liangshan Marsh and be the highest official.

For example, replacing Zhang Shuye as the prefect of a certain place.

It's not a matter of keeping the enemy for one's own benefit.

But it is also first-class freedom.

Moreover, it is possible to pretend to obey while secretly disobeying.

If your court makes any move, I can give up my official position at any time. At worst, I can fight another battle. Moreover, even if I need to pacify bandits in all directions, I can temporarily change the soldiers and horses on Liangshan Marsh into civilian status. In this way, it is impossible to consume my soldiers and horses through a dog-eat-dog approach.

Anyway, as a prefect, I only have a few thousand soldiers under my command.

They are not my own people.

Even if I let some of my brothers infiltrate the team in order to pretend to obey but actually disobey, in other words, replace all the officers with my own people to ensure that I have enough control over the team, but even so, there will be at most a hundred officers among the thousands of soldiers and horses, and it will not cause any serious damage if we lose the battle.

Therefore, even considering the situation at that time.

Song Jiang is undoubtedly a villain.

If Lu Junyi came.

It's not surprising that he made this choice.

Because from the beginning to the end, Lu Junyi was a typical brainless person, and Yan Qing tried his best but failed to save this idiot.

Therefore, if Lu Junyi was determined by the four words of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, he might accept the amnesty and follow the example of Song Jiang in the original novel.

But Song Jiang is definitely not such a person.

Therefore, reputation is very important.

Appearance is only considered when one's reputation is not obvious.

After all, at the end of the day, humans are visual animals.

Appearance is important.

Otherwise, there wouldn’t be so many people going for plastic surgery nowadays.

It is because of my appearance that I am discriminated against and my heart is hurt.

That's why I'm considering changing my appearance.

Therefore, Qing Yanjing's actions would indeed directly affect her reputation. After all, she was still engaged to Mahatian, and both the ancient Futu clan and the ancient Maha clan were aware of this. If it was a normal social interaction, no one would say anything, because the world is an extraordinary world, and there is no such thing as the ladies of ancient times who never left the house. Some of the more extreme ones could not even see the male relatives before getting married.

Women in this world can be said to be quite free.

Fighting with male practitioners is not a problem.

Normal social interaction is no problem at all.

However, bringing a man back to your home, or even living with him in the same yard, although there are many rooms in the yard, not just this one house, the concept is completely different. Even if there is no restriction of an engagement, this operation is explosive enough, not to mention, there is still the restriction of this engagement!

Therefore, it is completely different from the secret that was previously only circulated among high-level officials.

at the moment.

Qing Yanjing asked Lu Yuan to move in.

The news can no longer be concealed.

Fortunately, there are no talkative people in the ancient Futu clan.

In other words, even if there was one, he could not afford the crime of informing and dared not tell the people from the Mahagu tribe. Otherwise, it would be equivalent to declaring war on the Mahagu tribe, and it would have to be a life-and-death fight, which would be tantamount to stomping on the Mahagu tribe's face.

However, there was no one to tell on him.

There was also a lot of discussion behind the scenes.

As for opinions…

Nature is also diverse...

Some people accused Qing Yanjing of being shameless, while others said that Qing Yanjing dared to love and hate, and acted decisively to catch a good boyfriend like Lu Yuan...

Some people accused Lu Yuan of having no sense of propriety and even having bad character for trying to get close to Qing Yanjing even though he knew she was already engaged. Others said that Lu Yuan was not afraid of the ancient Maha tribe and followed the laws of nature, because the law of nature is that the strong prey on the weak. As the saying goes, treasures are always owned by those who are destined to have them, and beauties are naturally owned by the strong. Lu Yuan is stronger, so it is right that he and Qing Yanjing are in love.

All in all, there are all kinds of opinions.

Lu Yuan is also good.

Qing Yanjing is fine.

I've learned not to listen a long time ago.

After all, this world is too noisy, and only what important people say matters.

What the rest say.

Just treat these people as idiots.

Or like a fly, buzzing meaninglessly.

When you are in a good mood, just pay attention to it.

If you are in a bad mood, just drive them away.

Of course, this presupposes that you have the power to drive them away.

So, after going around in circles, the problem still comes back to strength.

As for the benefit, it is safety.

At least that's what Qing Yanjing thought.

Because Lu Yuan needed to go into seclusion and try to break through the bottleneck between the Earth Supreme and the Heaven Supreme, and in the process of breaking through, any unexpected interruption could cause the practitioner to go astray, or even fail at the last minute. And in the ancient Futu clan, there could be extreme people who wanted to attack Lu Yuan. Qing Yanjing chose to play it safe and keep Lu Yuan under her own eyes, which was indeed very safe.

After all, Qing Yanjing is not just a spiritual-grade celestial supreme being.

She is also a grandmaster of spiritual formations.

Her yard is her home.

Of course, this is true for any regular spiritual master.

Therefore, although it cannot reach the level of defense of the ancient Futu clan's protective formation, under the leadership of Qing Yanjing, the grandmaster of spiritual formations, even if the Holy Heavenly Supreme came, he would not be able to cause the slightest interference to Lu Yuan. What's more, her old father Qing Qingcang is next door, so if something really happens, he will definitely be able to react at the first time, which is equivalent to directly solving Lu Yuan's safety problem. In addition, she can also stay close to Lu Yuan in her spare time.

I have to say that mentality has nothing to do with age.

For a woman who keeps a very good mentality.

Even at forty.

She still lives like a little girl.

However, Lu Yuan still focused more of his energy on the breakthrough, so the time they spent together was not long. They only played together for a while in the first few days of the meeting, and then he went into seclusion in the secret room to ensure success with a stable mentality.

even though……

Accidents always happen when you least expect them...

Lu Yuan's body was indeed still in the secret room of the house next to Qing Yanjing's.

But his soul has been sublimated.

It can also be said that his consciousness has left his body.

Summoned to the galaxy again.

He also met again the person who looked exactly like him, claiming to be his past incarnation, but no one knew whether it was true or not. In other words, at least he did not think that this unknown existence was his past incarnation, but he would not say it directly.