"Senior brother, think about it, is there any chance my plan could succeed?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he turned around and saw Zhang Sanfeng looking completely bewildered, not having recovered his senses for a long time.
At this moment, Zhang Sanfeng's eyes were blank, his mind wandering in the void. This was the first time Xiao Ning had seen him in this state.
Xiao Ning's words truly shocked Zhang Sanfeng. Such a refreshing and imaginative idea was something he had never heard of before.
He couldn't help but imagine the scene of his fifth disciple, Zhang Cuishan, sitting on the throne in the south, with countless people below shouting "Long live the Emperor!"
Furthermore, the new dynasty honored Wudang as the state religion, granting it overall control over all religious affairs, leading to the rise of Taoism and the decline of Buddhism…
Thinking about it this way, Zhang Sanfeng suddenly felt that Xiao Ning's idea was very interesting, highly feasible, and would yield rich rewards if successful.
Even with his detached and extraordinary nature, Zhang Sanfeng couldn't help but be moved by this thought.
His thoughts returned to reality, and he stared intently at Xiao Ning.
After a long while, he sighed softly, "Junior brother, your idea is wildly imaginative. If you weren't my junior brother, I might have taken action to capture you to prevent you from wreaking havoc on the world!"
Xiao Ning laughed heartily: "Hehe, if you weren't my senior brother, I wouldn't have told anyone about this!"
Zhang Sanfeng cracked a little joke to ease the tense atmosphere.
He then cleared his throat and said seriously, "Junior brother, I have carefully considered your idea, and it is a very good one!"
"but!"
"There are three things I don't understand, and I hope you can explain them to me, junior brother!"
Xiao Ning nodded: "Please speak, Senior Brother!"
Zhang Sanfeng held up one finger and said, "Firstly, Cuishan is a disciple of Wudang. How can we allow him to join the Ming Cult?"
He tightened his second finger: "Secondly, now that all the heroes in the world are focused on Cuishan, how can he sneak up to the Ming Cult headquarters in Kunlun Mountain and take away the will and the 'Great Shift of Heaven and Earth' manual?"
Finally, he tightened his third finger: "Finally, junior brother, how can you guarantee that Cuishan will seize the position of leader of the Ming Cult? How can you guarantee that those unruly people of the Ming Cult will obey his command?"
"As long as these three problems can be solved, I will naturally give my full support to Junior Brother's plan!"
Zhang Sanfeng immediately noticed three difficulties in Xiao Ning's words, and he naturally needed to understand everything before making a decision.
The struggle for supremacy cannot be taken lightly.
It concerns the future rise and fall of Wudang, so Zhang Sanfeng naturally had to be extremely cautious.
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Chapter 37 Finalizing the Plan
In the world of The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, the Central Plains of China are ruled by foreign races, and the Han people have been completely subjugated, becoming fourth-class citizens on par with pigs and sheep.
At the beginning of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty, in order to maintain his rule, the Yuan emperor divided the people into four classes:
The Mongols were undoubtedly the first class; the Semu people (Western Xia, Hui) were next; the Han people were next; and the Southern people were the lowest.
There is a world of difference between the third-class Han Chinese and the fourth-class Southern Chinese.
The third class of Han people were actually slaves who obeyed the Mongol rule and could no longer be considered genuine Han people.
The fourth class of Southerners were actually Han Chinese from the former Southern Song Dynasty.
Volume 42 of the Yuan Dian Zhang (元典章) under the section "Ministry of Justice - Various Killings" stipulates: "If a Mongol and a Han Chinese quarrel and the Mongol beats the Han Chinese, the Han Chinese shall not retaliate, but shall be allowed to file a complaint with the relevant authorities."
If a Mongol killed a Han Chinese of the lowest rank (fourth class), he only needed to be flogged fifty times and given some money as compensation.
If a Han Chinese killed a Mongol, he would be sentenced to death.
Later, Mongols who killed Han Chinese were no longer punished with caning; they only needed to pay with a sheep to offset the punishment.
Moreover, Mongols even enjoyed the right of first night.
When a fourth-class Han Chinese man marries a new wife, he must give the wife's virginity to a Mongol, usually to the local Mongol headman. Only after the headman has slept with her can the wife be returned to the Han Chinese man.
If it is discovered that a wife was no longer virgin before the marriage, she will be punished by the Mongols.
Moreover, fourth-class citizens had to ask a Mongol to act as guarantor when they got married, otherwise they would be punished.
As a result, many fourth-class Han Chinese secretly killed their first child after it was born, to avoid raising a tiger that would become a threat.
Fourth-class Han Chinese were not allowed to possess weapons. Even the kitchen knife in their homes had to be shared by several households and registered in their names to prevent Han Chinese from causing trouble.
Fourth-class Han Chinese were not allowed to have names. For example, Zhu Yuanzhang's former name was Zhu Baba or Zhu Chongba.
All of this demonstrates the low social status of the Han people.
Having come to such a miserable world, Xiao Ning believed that if he did nothing and only cared about his own comfort, wouldn't he be no different from an animal?
Admittedly, with his current martial arts skills, he could easily storm into Dadu, kill all the Mongol imperial relatives and nobles, and massacre Dadu.
Xiao Ning did not do that.
If he really killed all the high-ranking officials of the Mongol Yuan dynasty, he might feel good and vent his anger, but in the end, it would be the innocent poor people and Han compatriots who would suffer.
Therefore, the matter of killing high-ranking Manchu officials needs to be considered carefully.
Therefore, after killing the entire family of the Prince of Ruyang and killing the National Preceptor Liansheng, he immediately stopped and left Dadu.
Xiao Ning was afraid that he wouldn't be able to resist turning against the high-ranking officials of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty.