Transcending Time and Soaring to the Clouds

Chapter 888: Unable to Become a Wise Ruler

All the generals were happy, except Bai Yanheng, who glanced at Qingyun.

"General, is there something on your mind?"

After the generals left, Bai Yanheng looked at Qingyun. Ever since he met Qingyun, she had always been carefree and cheerful, smiling all day long, and nothing could make her worry.

Whether she was serving as a county magistrate or suppressing bandits, raising a private army or killing princes, or fleeing with a large army, there was no sign of hardship or difficulty on her face.

This is the first time I see her like this.

Qingyun tilted his head and glanced at him, scratched his head and said, "Nothing. I was just thinking that this chaos has lasted long enough, and I hope it will end soon."

She was thinking that the people who suffer the most from the war are always the ordinary people living at the bottom of society.

In natural disasters, they are the ones who are abandoned; in man-made disasters, they are still the ones who are abandoned.

Their families were broken up, they were forced to leave their homes and wander around this land like ghosts, suffering a life worse than death and never seeing hope.

For some people, war is a tool for them to fight for power and become hegemons.

She is also one of them.

It was the first time that Qingyun felt guilty. He did not do this for himself or his family, nor for his brothers, nor for the sake of competing for that chair or to improve his reputation.

  I just want to do something for the people on this land.

It would be fine if she didn't have this ability, but she does.

If she lets go, Qianlu City will be lost.

  Heavy rains for more than half a month, coupled with flash floods and mudslides, drowned millions of people.

Millions of innocent lives were lost.

It would be fine if she didn't know, but the most hateful thing is that she knows it.

Qingyun raised her middle finger to the sky: Damn God! He came here specifically to test her conscience.

  Does she seem like a person with a conscience?

Bai Yanheng didn't know whether he believed it or not, he just said: "The current situation is chaotic, which is most conducive to our recovery of the Central Plains. General, if you have any ideas, you might as well speak out, Heng will give you some reference."

Bai Yanheng was also afraid of her, so he did whatever he wanted, and finally caused trouble for the army. But there was not much military rations left for her to use.

Qingyun tilted his head to glance at him, hesitated for a few seconds before saying: "Let me ask you something, if a flash flood occurs in Sanlu City and floods the city, will the government and army of Sanlu City save the people?" Qingyun despised himself in his heart for being pretentious.

If the army flattened Zhongzhou, the people of Zhongzhou were also her people. There was nothing wrong with saving her own people.

But she was unwilling to give in.

Why?

Because Sanlu City is not hers yet, the prefect of Sanlu City did not save his people, and the general of Sanhu City did not save them either. Why should she save them?

  It would be fine to save the civilians, but do you want to save hundreds of thousands of enemy soldiers?

She didn't take advantage of the situation, which showed she had a great conscience.

Bai Yanheng was startled, then he looked her up and down, suppressed his surprise, and said, "You want to save the people of Sanlu City?"

It is said that Bai Yanheng understands Qingyun! He listened carefully and immediately understood Qingyun's hidden meaning, and then he was delighted.

A wise ruler with a benevolent heart is definitely better than a cold and indifferent ruler.

If you don't share her joys and sorrows, you can't be her brother. If you are not in her jurisdiction, you will not be protected under her wings.

If someone who had nothing to do with her grabbed her feet and asked for help, she would kick them away ruthlessly and then walk away or watch them die.

She will not kick someone when he is down, nor will she rescue him.

She can't be a tyrant, but she can't be a wise ruler either.

I can’t guarantee anything else, but Bai Yanheng can guarantee this.

Even though she ruled Qishan and the North very well, implemented various policies and measures that benefited the people, and had a very good reputation, it would be a big mistake to think that she was a wise ruler.

  That's because she is lazy, she is afraid of trouble and doesn't like others to cause trouble for her. In this way, it's good for you, it's good for me, and it's good for everyone!

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