Chapter 252 (1/2)
Chapter 252: Killing Officials
The sound of rain and thunder woke Pei Zi Yun up, who sat up on his bed within his cabin Strong winds assaulted the boat crew outside and carried along with it bullet like rain drops Several of the boat crew Master the wind and rain are getting heavy Please be careful!”
”Don’t worry about that Where are ?” Pei Zi Yun looked up at the sky and asked There weren'tin this particular shower, but the rain was indeed heavy
”Young Master, we’ve arrived at the Eastern Gorge and are preparing to disembark”
Pei Zi Yun watched everyone as they lowered the sails, the anchors, the platform, and other ropes He didn’t wish to disturb them and looked around, to see the north-west land which faced the eastern mountains When he peered further in the distance, he saw the undulating es, where a monastery could be seen
Right at this point, in the midst of the rain, he could see the flicker of a lantern and was bewildered When he squinted, he got a clearer look at who it was and stepped forward to welcome the person, ”So it’s Sect Leader, why have you come personally to welcome me?”
Indeed, the person who caht along several people with her All of them wore thick woven rain coats which repelled the rain and prevented it fro on their skin Pei Zi Yun welcomed them onto his boat, before he invited the female sect leader into his tea room
The Sect Leader didn’t stand on ceremony as well, as she took off her raincoat and sandals before she walked in At this point, she looked at Pei Zi Yun and laughed, ”The weather is rather cold Can you get us some hot soup to warm ourselves up?”
Pei Zi Yun hurriedly sent the order for sohed, ”The matter doesn’t seem as serious as it sounds”
”Actually, thenow is my inner circle” The Sect Leader stood up and paced around, her voice sounded extre like this has happened, the behavior ofvery disappointed”
”Several disciples ere alreadyto think very differently When they first received inforht of ways to absolve their fa of ways to help the sect”
”And several other inner circles disciples who aren’t experienced enough in such e shock when they heard this news”
”True Element Sect has been around for several hundred years and is a very reputable sect When everything was going well, we had many allies and stable social connections Money and power often worked in our favor Now that soone weak in the knees, and their behaviors have all been substandard Ai, could it truly be that women disciples cannot match up to men disciples?”
”I’ve brought several people here, so that they would be able to see how you handle matters, and be experienced in such ways They would also be able to see how a decisive person handles such situations and make rational decisions” The female sect leader spoke out as she walked towards the s and gazed up at the sky, she watched the rain pour down as it slapped against the sills
As soon as these words were spoken, several disciples revealed looks of unhappiness One of theovernment official, and there are even so officials With a little bit of effort, we ht be able to cause these disciples to back down”
”Listen to this After thinking for such a long time, their only solution is to
use their husbands to suppress the matters with their power and maybe offer up soiving up several of our disciples as wives” The Sect Leader laughed as she spoke
Pei Zi Yun wasn’t willing to talk about the pros and cons of having male disciples over female disciples At this point, he mumbled under his breath before he spoke, ”There arelady has actually brought up a valid point”
Just as he wanted to continue speaking, the kitchen chef brought out several boxes of snacks and a jug of tea in When the boxes were opened, gold colored pastries presented thelistened with oil and was steam rose from them The decadent sht
Everyone present had rushed over in the ry by now After they smelled the delicious aromas of the pastries, nobody spoke Everyone had a piece and some tea
”This is teaalnut kernels and red dates If the nobles were to drink this, they would even add soh to soothe hunger and thirst…”
The Sect Leader picked up her cup and started to sip the tea as she smiled, ”Isn’t this the same drink served by many of those wild Daoists, why did you make this for us?”
”Those wild Daoists often try to assu such drinks often helped to serve their purpose They would pick out iteh nutritional value and add it to these drinks Thus, they always see froer” Pei Zi Yun then replied, ”This tea would go very ith the pastries Besides, we aren’t like those wild Daoists who need to put up false pretense in order to earn incense money”
”Since such drinks aren’t expensive, and they are able to nourish the sailors as well as cooes very ith the pastries”
At this point, Pei Zi Yun finished a cup of tea He was the Sect Leader of the Free Cloud Sect and was an Imperial Court appointed Dao Master, who killed took ahenever he dee polite and courteous to the Sect Leader at this point He thus looked up and spoke coldly, ”I did say that we could try soed”
”Ever since the stabilization of the dynasty, everything has changed People are forgetful in nature When the dynasty first was established, there were already instances of prefecturalunreasonably If froistrates were co under years?”
”After coistrate of a prefecture, what happens to his future successors and his subordinates? It’s needless to say that all of them would be compromised as well, and would be overwhel to exploit and bribe them”
”Lands, fields, and businesses are all property belonging to someone But yourselves and the Dao arts aren’t’ properties? Which official wouldn’t wish to marry a beautiful, sly help hi?”
”But when so to Daoists sects, and have Dao arts with us When it comes down to the final straw, the only way is to kill or to rebel”
”So once so like this sets a precedence and is allowed to happen without consequence to the istrate, even powerful Daoists sects would be just like chicken eggs Once it falls, it will break and never recover But that doesn’tTaking action would have to start from the root of the problem”
”And to get to the root of the proble officials” Pei Zi Yun’s face was filled with sht-hearted manner When the ladies within the room heard this, their hands started to treers dipped into their cups filled with scalding hot tea, they didn't even realize it Most of them had their eyes and mouths wide open
Even the Sect Leader couldn’t help but sighed as she spoke, ”Since that’s the case, what should we do then? We probably can’t send an assassin to kill the istrate!”
”Of course not Having anything directly related to killing an official would see backlash from the Imperial Qi With everyone’s current cultivation level, you would die immediately from the severe backlash”
”Besides, killing the officials directly would incite the fury of the I istrate’s office knows this as well, that’s why they’re so fearless” Pei Zi Yun spoke gloomily, ”But the reason Daoists sects can exists up to this point without going extinct is because we have our own methods as well”
”The first step is to be polite If that doesn’t work, we shall then use force As for speaking with the istrate, I presume you’ve already done it?”