The reason why Fang Tian accepted the appointment of the city lord of the Empire was mainly due to two considerations.
First, he was stirring up the wind and rain on his territory and made a lot of noise. Now that he issued a warrant order and wanted to include him in the system, he agreed, and both sides were very happy. If he reached this point, he still maintained his identity as a casual cultivator and his influence became increasingly greater, it was hard to say what would happen next, which was something Fang Tian didn't want to see.
The second is for considerations in practice.
In the previous night conversation, Fang Tian once mentioned a method to the Mulau magician: "Put the ears with cotton, cover the eyes with cloth, leave meditation, abandon the senses, eat every three days, and do the best."
This is actually the beginning of practice.
Free a person from the complicated and messy worldly affairs and use all his energy to face his body and mind.
The corresponding themes of this method are the two words "clear" and "quiet".
Because of tranquility, it is clear.
Because of the purity, we can see our true self and face our body and mind.
But tranquility is just the beginning after all.
It is impossible for practice to fall only on tranquility.
Just as people cannot always remain in the state of babies. Although "the water in the mountain spring is clear, the water in the mountain spring is turbid", the clear spring is just an admirable corner, but it is not the whole of ideal.
The sea is.
In my previous lives, I often had ups and downs in the world of fame and profit. Many people came to countries, regions or tribes that still remained or mostly remained primitive and backward. They often lamented: "Although this place is backward, the people's customs are very simple. Why do we lose this simplicity with development?"
Many people sighed deeply.
What's more, a tendency of "anti-civilism" has even emerged.
In my previous life, Fang Tian was also confused about this, but now he has understood the principles.
When I was in the turbid spring, I felt that it was a kind of beauty, but I didn’t see it. Although the turbid spring was turbid, I began to explore, evolve, and began to walk on the road to the sea.
The vastness and breadth of its prospects, the depth and immeasurable depth of its abyss are by no means comparable to the so-called clear spring.
Therefore, even if the spring water in the mountain is clear, it is still necessary to come out of the mountain for the sake of prospects.
Otherwise, in the end, it will eventually become a stagnant water that has lost any vitality.
This is true for a group society and for an individual's life.
Of course, the same is true for practice rooted in life.
It can even be said that the "clearness" in practice is just to start with, "clear things in the world and enlightenment of human feelings".
Therefore, the eighty-one chapter of "Laozi" was called "Tao Te Ching" in later generations.
Tao is the individual's practice.
Virtue is the connection and grafting between individuals and groups.
Even if you don’t talk about these serious things, say some imagination. You are free from the world, you are quiet, you are vast in power, and you live in the same world. But if you are the only one between the world, at any time, all you can face is the eternal sun, moon, stars, and desolation and loneliness.
What's the point of being like that?
Therefore, engaging in the world and seeking transcendence in the world. Seeking development in the world is the right path to practice and the end of practice.
In short, in one sentence - if you are separated from the world, you don’t have to talk about practice.
Because no matter how much you practice, what you can gain is just a pale life.
Practice serves life, and life must be reflected in the complex and complex world. If you don’t even understand this, the so-called practice, in the end, is nothing more than a piece of grass, wood, bamboo and stone in the mountains, and then return to the earth under the erosion of time.
That was something Fang Tian didn't take.
So at this time, he is the city lord.
The appointment of the empire can be said to be at the right time. But even without this appointment, after becoming a mage, he would still find ways to experience the ups and downs in the world.
With a clear theme and a close approach to the theme, there can be thousands of methods.
Being the lord of a city is just one of them.
Because he did not take Xiao Qiqi and others out for fun, Fang Tian’s time was spared.
So after meeting with He Ke in Wucheng in the morning, the meeting with Owen and others, which was originally scheduled to be held in the evening, began in the afternoon.
Time, afternoon.
Location, Fenglin side courtyard, martial arts training ground.
The characters, all the main mercenaries in Maple Forest, Grote, the three elders of Nanjin, and Fang Tian.
People are three parties, but they are divided into two parts.
Fang Tian stood solemnly with his hands down, quietly looking at the group of people opposite him.
The people on the opposite side, whether it was Grote or Nanjin's three elders, whether it was Irving Anderson, Frank Skinny Monkey and others, were all standing with their hands down like Fang Tian.
After the training camp, a completely different atmosphere appeared on them.
If they had followed their training every day before, Fang Tian's feelings would not have been as great as they are now. As the saying goes, if you have been in the Zhilan Room for a long time, you will not feel the fragrance. However, because of an unexpected retreat, when you come out again, it was already forty-three days later.
So at this time, in Fang Tian's view, the changes of Owen and others were very big.
In Fang Tian's eyes before, Fenglin and his group, except for a few others such as Irving Anderson, most of them were not distracted. Rather than saying that they were a warrior, they were ordinary people who knew martial arts.
Their focus of life is not on cultivation, nor even on mercenary missions.
Where is it?
Not here anywhere.
I can only say that this is just a group of guys who are busy waiting to die, without pursuit or goal. - because it is barely enough to live a life with their group and martial arts.
So I just live like that.
Such a state can last for one year, ten years, one hundred years, one thousand years, or even ten thousand years without any change.
Fang Tian had no doubt that if there were no major changes in the outside world, their lifestyle and psychological state would continue like this. It would last forever. Fang Tian even speculated that the people at the bottom of this world might be in this state.—
Because the ascending channel is not obvious, and because basic survival can barely be guaranteed, I have been living in a daze.
Otherwise, what else can I do?
Pursuing power?
All power is concentrated in the hands of middle and high-level practitioners and aristocratic families. As ordinary people, they have no qualifications to pursue.
Pursuing wealth?
That would be even more funny. If you don’t even have a little power, then even a little more wealth is a disaster, not a blessing. In such a situation, pursuing wealth is not a better life, but causing trouble to oneself.
Pursuing knowledge?
Is there a 1% popularity rate of writing in this world?
Thinking of this, Fang Tian sighed in his heart.
It was only then that he woke up that what he brought to Irving Anderson and others was not only a possibility of further martial arts, but also more changes in life. As soon as he thought of this, he no longer needed to say some of the things he wanted to say.
The next moment, Fang Tian captured the appointment letter from the well that the imperial side gave him and passed it to Owen.
Irving took it carefully but looked down, then was shocked first, then overjoyed.
"Brother, you... are you already the city lord?" Owen raised his head and said loudly with excitement.
"Yes. A few days ago, after I was promoted to a mage, the empire appointed me as the city lord of this thousand miles." Fang Tian said lightly.
It was not until this time that the others knew what was going on.
So the crowd was full of an uproar.
Fang Tian could be indifferent to this appointment. But everyone else, even Grote and the three elders of Nanjin, could not be indifferent at all.
A city lord, a city lord appointed by the empire, and a large city destined to develop into a large city governed by the empire. There are too many things that can be decided and affected, and for a while, everyone is even a little unbelievable.
"Brother, we don't have to sell the goods to those damn dealers in the future?"
After a while, after a whispering and uproar, a brother from Fenglin said this.
Yes, for them, this may be the biggest resentment in their hearts, so the first thing they thought of was this aspect.
Fang Tian smiled and nodded.
After coming to this world, Fang Tian has known a lot after so many times. Fortunately, when he first came here, he did not produce wine or anything else.
In this world, it can be said that almost all commercial activities are governed by the empire and require management rights.
The management of management rights is mostly arranged by local imperial cities.
This means that without appointments from the city, it is illegal to make wine and sell them, or even if you just transport the goods to the city for sale by yourself.
And in this world, illegal and dangerous.
After receiving Fang Tian's nod, Fenglin and others cheered. If they could handle those goods themselves, even if they had the same harvest as before, their income could directly increase by several times, even if it was less than ten times, five, six, seven or eight times.
Sharjah, who was sitting in a small bamboo forest away outside the town, saw this, but just shook his head.
My friend is the city lord, but these guys think of this, this is really... it's really...
Sharjah didn't know the word "the pearl fell into darkness", but this kind of thought came to his mind. In fact, being the lord of a city can determine more than just these things?
Do they know that everything in a thousand miles of radius will be governed by the Lord of a city?
Sharjah thinks this way, but he is a little demanding on the Maple Forest.
As a group that originally lived at the bottom, even Owen, who was the leader, was just like all the brothers in the group, who had been making a living in the small town. Not to mention the various aspects of the empire's city, how could anyone like them know about it?
Among them, only those who have reached a certain level know about it.
Just like in the ancient times of Fang Tian, the world was full of wilderness and people had no food to cover their belly. Emperor Hui of Jin said, "Why not eat meat minced?"
As an emperor, his words are natural. But he does not know that under it, resources and information are so poor that they have nothing.
In fact, let alone Fenglin and others, even Fang Tian, who has been appointed as the city lord, can know how much of his identity? What is certain is that there will not be too many.
That night, Maple Forest Ceremony.
The bonfire and barbecue decorate the whole night. The maple forest, including Irving Anderson and others, were all drunk.
Of course, in terms of wine in this world, their drunkenness is more of a psychological drunkenness, and closer to pleasure and indulgence. It is impossible to talk about alcohol poisoning and drunkenness.
After the party, Fang Tian’s Kaspersky’s fourth chapter began.