Chapter 1382 Deterrence
The thing is actually very simple.
It is nothing more than that Zhang San’s house in Village A lost a farming ox, but it was found in Li Si’s house in Village B. Zhang San went to Xingshi to ask the crime. Li Si asked his fellow villagers to beat Zhang San out with sticks, his nose was blue and his face was swollen, and a leg was broken.
As a result, a large-scale fighting between villages A and B was triggered.
In impoverished and isolated villages and towns, this kind of village-based fighting is commonplace.
Competing for cattle, water, land, wives, or resolving old grievances accumulated over hundreds of years, all kinds of old rotten millet, it is quite normal for both sides to fight their brains and ruin a few lives.
However, Village A and Village B are right at the junction of the spheres of influence of the two cultivating sects, and they are protected by different sects. There are even temples and ancestral halls in each village, which enshrine the heroic spirits of cultivators from different sects. The sky is filled with incense and fire, and there are endless sacrifices all year round!
When the villagers fight with weapons, they often like to invite all the clay idols from the ancestral hall, dressed in red and green, and firecrackers are fired, and they are carried by a few strong men to rush into the battle, expressing the protection of the immortal master and letting them win the battle.
Since it is a fight with weapons, it is inevitable that the fists and feet will be blind. In the messy scene, the clay idol of one of the "immortal masters" will be smashed, and even deliberately use black dog blood, a woman's loincloth when she has menstruation, etc. to defile it. , are inevitable.
For the backers of the defeated party, how could those cultivators watch their heroic spirits being trampled and humiliated by the opponent?
Tell me, a certain cultivator of a certain sect is so ever-changing and powerful when he is alive, but after his death, his heroic spirit is so unbearable that he can't even protect the believers on his side to win the battle. The black dog's blood broke the dharmakaya!
If such words spread, is this cultivation sect still used in the cultivation world?
Therefore, when encountering such a thing, it is necessary for the cultivating sect to stand up for the peasants within its sphere of influence!
If they want to stand out, they will naturally not lower their status and go to trouble the farmers on the opposite side, but go directly to the sect on the other side!
Since the two sects are bordering each other, friction between each other has naturally continued for hundreds of years. They have long forged inexplicable grievances, and there are various conflicts of interest. If one side comes to the door with great fanfare, the other side will show weakness ?
As a result, the two cultivation sects finally died of more than 20 qi refining and three foundation building fire unions, and it started inexplicably like this.
It seems to be caused by a farm ox, but in fact it is not for a cow, but to fight for a breath, and the purpose of fighting for a breath is to fight for an all-round living space.
According to Li Yao's after-the-fact knowledge, as long as the land is sparsely populated, highly developed, and unable to expand to the surrounding mountains and forests, the style of folk fighting will prevail.
Whether in rural areas, with the village as the unit, in order to compete for farmland, water wells, irrigation, etc., or in cities and towns, in order to compete for the interests of water transportation, mining, and private salt trading, they often use force to fight and maintain.
Most of the fields in each village belonged to a certain sect of cultivation, and the salt gangs and water gangs in the city, even if they were controlled by a martial arts gang, weren't they connected with a certain sect of cultivation?
Therefore, this kind of weapon fighting will, in all likelihood, involve cultivating sects. From fighting between ordinary people, it will evolve into a fight between cultivating sects. Both sides will even invite sword immortal experts from three mountains and five mountains, and the flames of war will intensify. , into a battle spanning dozens or hundreds of sects.
As Li Yao saw with his own eyes this time, the conflict between two cultivation sects over a farm ox was actually quite good.
After all, in the ancient Xiu era, farming cattle were regarded as an important asset of a village, and it was indeed worth fighting for their ownership.
And Li Yao heard that the most extreme example was that two large-scale cultivation sects went to war for a shit, and the two sides kept inviting the Xianghao sect to come to help, and the Xianghao sect also had senior brothers and sisters spread out to support themselves. The portal, hearing that his own people suffered a disadvantage, also rushed to help.
As a result, more and more forces joined in. After a battle that lasted for half a year, needless to say, even Jindan lost two of them!
One piece of shit, two golden elixir masters, it sounds really ridiculous, it's a ridiculous thing to do in the world!
But after careful analysis, Li Yao felt that this was really an indestructible vicious circle, and everyone caught in the vicious circle, from the ignorant peasant woman to the aloof Jindan, could not escape.
The so-called "one bubble shit" refers to a peasant woman who took her child out to visit relatives, and on the way back, the child had abdominal pain and wanted to shit.
As the saying goes, "Fat and water don't flow into other people's fields". In this era, excrement is an important fertilizer. This place is still far away from our own village. Children pull whenever they want, and peasant women can't stop, so they thought of a way to use a few pieces of lenient fertilizer. The leaves wrapped the excrement and wanted to take it back to their fields.
In the end, a peasant woman from a local village sprang out, pointed at her and said, since all the excrement fell on the border here, it is naturally the property of the village, and she must keep the excrement!
The two peasant women fought over a pile of excrement, and the result was that the peasant woman from the other country was at a disadvantage. Not only did she lose her excrement, but even a few strands of her hair were torn off.
Back home, weeping and talking about the two villages belonging to different cultivation sects, they had formed a deep feud because of water sources, land and other reasons, and naturally it was another brain-breaking fight.
As long as a few people are killed in the armed fight, things will not be good. The peasants will not go to the yamen to find some bullshit Master Qingtian, but just carry the corpses of their own people to the outside of the mountain gate of the local practice sect. , crying loudly, kowtow like pounding garlic, begging the immortal master to bless.
Can the fairy master not bless you?
Since the practice sects are rooted in the hometown, they must rely more or less on the support of the folks in the village.
The big guy is tenanting your family’s fields, doing free long-term labor for your family, and building temples and ancestral halls for you. I can’t bear to eat a roast chicken for three years, but I see the sky keeps giving your family’s dead people Enshrining, I have done this, and I am more filial than my own mother, what else can I do?
Immortal masters are not called for nothing, temples are not built for nothing, and roast chicken is not for your dead to eat for nothing. There are no deep mountains and old forests here, there are not many monsters to kill, tigers and wolves to get rid of, life is comfortable enough , Now the folks are in trouble, if you don't help to settle it, what kind of fairy master are you, what shame do you have to eat chicken?
What's more, beating a dog depends on the owner. The person lying here is the uncle's second aunt's cousin of an outside disciple of your sect. Knowing that there is someone behind him, and knowing that our village is under the protection of the noble sect, the opposite side beat him to death. Didn't he take our sect seriously at all?
If you don't get ahead, others will never say that this sect is magnanimous and that peace is the most important thing, but they will think they are cowardly and weak!
"What kind of sect is this? You can't even snatch a piece of shit back. How can you gain a foothold in the cultivation world and snatch those heavenly and earthly treasures, magical treasures and supernatural powers?"
Although the reasoning is absurd, it is perfectly reasonable in this era of excessive cultivation sects, scarce cultivation resources, and extreme conflicts.
This is not a matter of shit, but a matter of deterrence.
The so-called deterrence consists of two parts.
One is to ensure that we have the ability to defend all interests, even if the "interests" are just shit.
Second, let everyone believe that if we have a disagreement, we will activate this ability at any time!
With deterrent power, demons, ghosts and other sects are afraid of you, and it is safer and more convenient for your disciples to go out to roam around. All walks of life will send benefits to you in exchange for your protection. If others want to snatch food from you, you have to think twice , Assess your revenge, there will be more casual cultivators coming to you because you "can withstand it"!
Without deterrence, you can’t protect even a bubble of shit. If you “can’t cover it”, it’s over. People’s hearts are scattered, sects are hard to lead, and no one will obey you when you go out. Demons and ghosts will be the first to attack you. The industry and territory you control will be harassed by others every day, and your disciples will be ridiculed by three aunts and six wives every day. Their faces will be dull, their morals will be unstable, and they will even slap their asses and leave. , maybe they will flee to other sects' sphere of influence and become other people's tenants!
Even, if this kind of thing gets out, the court will think you are a soft persimmon, and it will cause endless troubles!
Therefore, getting ahead is a must.
Of course, those who go to the top at the beginning must be the lowest-level Qi Refining Stage disciples. Maybe the two sides will set up rules, compete with each other, and try to solve the problem in a more peaceful way.
However, cultivators eat half a cow at a meal and kill a tiger with one punch. When it comes time to gnash their teeth, how can they do it every time?
If one is unlucky and kills a few disciples, can the master not stand out? If you don't show up, how will you get along in the cultivation world in the future?
Of course, masters also have masters, and masters have masters and various brothers. The younger ones came, the older ones came, Qi Lian was killed, the foundation came, and the foundation was killed, and the golden elixir came.
This is the root cause of "one bubble of shit kills two golden pills".
In the final analysis, "shit" is just the fuse. The key is the resources, which are getting less and less and exhausted day by day, which are not enough to support so many cultivators!
When Li Yao first heard this story, he just wanted to laugh.
But after carefully understanding the inside story, I felt a deep sadness.
He had known for a long time that in the ancient cultivation era, the relationship between cultivation sects was by no means as harmonious as in the modern civilization of cultivation. It was common for each other to fight for heaven and earth treasures, peerless supernatural powers, or even "kill people to seize treasures".
These cruel stories have long been shown in various novels, games, and literary works of Star Federation, so it is not surprising.
But they never expected that the world of Guxiu in the age of resource depletion could be so cruel. In order to maintain its deterrent power, every trivial matter would become the spark of a great war!