No one knew what the outcome of the battle at Dalun Temple was. After listening to Xiang Qingniu's narration, Fang Jie calmed down. He suddenly had a very strange feeling, which made him uncomfortable but felt that it would be good. He couldn't express the thought because no one could understand it. Would the world be better if all the heaven-defying practitioners like King Ming died
He got up and pulled up the blanket for Xiang Qingniu: "Tomorrow is the New Year's Eve. After the New Year, I will send you back to Qingle Mountain. Qingle Mountain is in the south of the Yangtze River and near the sea. The chaos of war is coming, so you should rest up for a while and don’t go down the mountain again. Chaos in the world cannot be controlled by quacks, the gathering of soldiers from all sides, swords and swords, great practitioners can control the situation of a battle, but they cannot control the general trend of the world.”
Xiang Qingniu shook his head and said: "The world is in chaos, how can people in the Jianghu avoid it? I don't know how many people from sects will feel that there is an opportunity to take advantage of this chaos. Although the Taoist sect is not like the Buddhist sect So powerful, but he has always been the leader of the Jianghu in the Central Plains. When the troubled times came, the senior brother didn’t know whether he was still in Qinlin Gol or went to other places. The big brother didn’t show up in the battle at Dalun Temple, he must be doing something else It's a big deal, otherwise he will definitely go to the Great Snow Mountain."
"Eldest senior brother is missing, second senior brother is missing, Mo Ningzhi's strength in Qingle Mountain is a bit weak after all, and Yiqiguan's status in the arena has plummeted. Wudang Mountain Sanqing Temple is obviously standing by the emperor's side, and Zhang Yiyang's following by the emperor's side has already shown Attitude. At this time, other sects in the Jianghu will also find their own backers. Looking at the change of dynasties in the past, when will we leave the Jianghu guest to participate?"
Fang Jie frowned slightly: "You don't want to participate!"
Xiang Qingniu pondered for a while and asked, "What are your plans?"
Fang Jie shook his head: "No matter what my plan is, don't get involved in Qingle Mountain's one-spirited concept. You should be your Daoist, the hundreds of lives on Qingle Mountain won't even make a splash in a war!"
"No, you are wrong!"
Xiang Qingniu looked at Fang Jie and said earnestly: "After this time, I suddenly realized a truth... Why can the Buddhist sect dominate in the west? It was because of the help of King Ming that the Mongolian and Yuan dynasty existed for hundreds of years, and because of the With the promotion of the Yuan Dynasty, the Buddha Sect will cover the entire prairie faster. Fang Jie, don’t you think about conquering the world by yourself? If you have this plan, I will help you!"
His face was a little flushed and he said: "There are far more powers on Qingle Mountain than you know. Although the history of Yiqi Temple is far less than that of Dalun Temple, how can it be possible to lead the world without some real great practitioners? I will help you, you Come help me! When the second senior brother sent me down the mountain, he said that the Central Plains cannot be without a Daoist, I know what he means, don't you know what he means?"
Fang Jie shook his head: "Prince Loyalty doesn't necessarily mean that, I don't have the strength to do anything wrong now."
"How do you call it non-point?"
Xiang Qingniu said excitedly: "Now you have soldiers and generals in your hands, no lack of food and morale, and the chaos in the Central Plains seems to be a competition between several major forces, but in fact, the real control of the situation is those who have not yet made a move. People. No matter what Luo Yao's status is, there are some people in the Central Plains who don't want him to sit on the dragon chair that symbolizes supremacy. Otherwise, why do you think Gao Kaitai suddenly turned against him? Otherwise, why do you think the six guards in the south of the Yangtze River suddenly withdrew?"
These words moved Fang Xie's heart.
Xiang Qingniu said: "Some things are still too superficial for you to see. At the beginning when the Yang family raised their troops, the Zheng Guo army was strong and strong, even if the emperor was insane, but there are many famous generals in the court. Why did the Yang family army defeat Zheng Guo's army like a broken bamboo and gain a foothold smoothly? Central Plains?"
"Because in the Central Plains, there is a huge force that chose the Yang family!"
Xiang Qingniu's tone was a little hasty, and his face became more and more flushed: "You have only been in the Central Plains for a short time, and you don't even know what the strongest strength in the Central Plains is. It is not a sect, not an aristocratic family, and not a so-called royal family! It is an interest group, and these people have controlled the world of the Central Plains for more than a decade or a hundred years, and it can even be traced back to before Dazheng!"
"what do you mean?"
Fang asked.
Xiang Qingniu sighed and said, "You take disputes too simply."
He tried his best to sit up straighter, looked into Fang Xie's eyes and said seriously: "Think about it, when Dazheng established the country, the previous Han Dynasty had been established for three hundred years. The founding emperor of the Zheng Kingdom is just one of the generals of the Eight Pillars of the Han Kingdom, and his strength is not outstanding, so why was he able to break through all directions in the end, proclaim himself emperor, and turn his family into a country?"
"Because he was supported by someone behind him, and there was a powerful force behind him. After Zheng Liguo, this force easily controlled the power of the court, and even the emperor couldn't make a decree to return it to the imperial power. This power is not a family, but a family. Huge group. At the beginning, the Han Dynasty was very powerful, and the emperor's power became more and more concentrated. This powerful group found it more and more difficult to fully control the court, because the mature Han royal family was trying to take back all the rights. So those The people launched a war and overthrew the Han Kingdom..."
"Hundreds of years later, the royal family of the state of Zheng repeated what the royal family of the Han had done. Back then, the royal family of the Zheng State overthrew the Han State with the support of that powerful group, but the royal family of the State of Zheng also knew that sooner or later the royal family of the State of Zheng would overthrow the State of Han After hundreds of years of precipitation, the royal family thought they could declare war on that interest group, but they still underestimated the strength of the interest group and eventually broke the country."
"Then, this interest group chose the Yang family."
Xiang Qingniu took a long breath and asked, "Do you know why they chose the Yang family?"
"Why?"
Fang asked.
"Because Yang Jian had status at that time, but he was not high. He was just one of the great generals of the imperial court. He had a certain influence, but it was a joke to turn his family into a country by relying on his own strength. Yang Jian was not stupid. It's just a second-rate family, weak and easy to control! That's why the interest group chose the Yang family, because the Yang family is weak, and they thought they could easily control the future royal family."
"But what they didn't expect is that the people of the Yang family have produced sage monarchs from generation to generation, and there is not a single foolish monarch, and each generation has worked harder than each generation to strengthen the control of the royal family."
Fang Jie's complexion changed: "So, the Yang family has established the country for more than a hundred years, and that interest group can't stand it anymore?"
"right!"
Xiang Qingniu sighed: "No one knows who and what families are included in that interest group, but people in these families don't care about wars, because they are powerful enough to influence any war, and the direction of the war is also determined by it. It is completely under their control. As for the disasters brought about by the war, they don’t care about the hardships faced by the people, because they are the biggest beneficiaries of every dynasty change.”
"They won't be emperors by themselves, because they find that controlling the emperor is far more beneficial than being the emperor themselves. The emperor is just their plaything."
"so… "
Xiang Qingniu looked at Fang Jie and said word by word: "Do you think that a person as powerful as Luo Yao will become the new emperor of the Central Plains?"
Fang Jie's heart was churning, and his throat felt a little dry.
Xiang Qingniu said: "Such interest groups have existed since ancient times, and they were not formed in recent years. Those people have always controlled the Central Plains, and they can do whatever they want. And Luo Yao is too powerful. Once Luo Yao finally succeeds, this interest group will not If they couldn't control Luo Yao, how could they just watch Luo Yao step by step towards victory? That's why Gao Kaitai, who was trusted by the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty before, suddenly raised troops in Hedongdao."
"That's why the general of the Six Guards in the south of the Yangtze River suddenly withdrew his troops. It seemed that Luo Yao had opened up the channel to the south of the Yangtze River, but in fact it was an integration. I'm afraid there will be a new interest group soon. The puppets appeared and participated in the struggle for hegemony. Gao Kaitai and the new ones were all pushed out by interest groups in order to stop Luo Yao, and you should know that the people who were pushed out first... were all cannon fodder."
"Actually, that interest group planned to destroy the Yang family's world a long time ago."
Xiang Qingniu said seriously: "When we were learning art on the mountain, do you know why my master accepted the second senior brother as his disciple?"
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Xiang Qingniu's words exploded in Fang Jie's heart like thunder, sentence by sentence. He had never thought of this level, let alone the fact that the real rulers of the Central Plains were not the royal families of the past dynasties, but an interest group hidden in the dark, turning their hands into clouds and rain.
That is a group of people who are united and powerful enough to destroy any dynasty at will. They treat the change of dynasty as a game and profit from it. Every time the dynasty changes, they can get huge benefits from it. They control the government, and they are the real power holders.
When the emperor's family has matured and become stronger and threatens them, they will not hesitate to provoke the war in the Central Plains, and then choose a new puppet to become the emperor and continue to be at their mercy.
And Xiang Qingniu said just now why Wan Xingchen accepted Yang Qi as his disciple, and why the founding emperor of the Sui Dynasty respected Wan Xingchen especially in the manner of his descendants. Yang Jian is an outstanding man, he saw through the purpose of that interest group early on. So from the very beginning, he was arranging the future path for the Yang family. He asked Wan Xingchen to protect the Yang family because he was afraid that people from that interest group would attack the Yang family prematurely.
When Wan Xingchen was old, Yang Qi was accepted as a disciple, just to let this kind of protection continue. There is such a person with a cultivation base against the sky standing beside the Yang family, it is not easy for people from interest groups to attack.
But the Yang family was too impatient and too strong.
After the Yang family established the country, they wanted to get rid of the shackles and control of that interest group. Every emperor kept making the Yang family stronger, which touched the interests of those people. But because of such a heaven-defying existence as Wan Xingchen, they still waited and watched, and did not act immediately. They may not be able to get rid of Wan Xingchen, but such a loss must be huge.
When it came to the generation of Emperor Yang Yi of the Great Sui Dynasty, they finally couldn't sit still.
Because they discovered that this Yang Yi scares them more than any previous Sui emperor. In the past ten years since Yang Yi ascended the throne, he has quietly eliminated six or seven families. When he sent troops to Jiangdu to massacre the three families represented by the Qiu family, this actually sounded the horn of war. So, even if Wan Xingchen is still alive, those people know that if they don't do anything, the Yang family will really take back all their rights.
Li Yuanshan became the first person chosen by those people.
Then Gao Kaitai, and then someone from Jiangnan will be pushed out.
Everything is actually fueled by those people.
However, Luo Yao was definitely not among those people's choices. Because Luo Yao is too powerful, the Yang family needs a Wan Xingchen to protect them, which has already made that interest group feel scared. Luo Yao himself is the next Wan Xingchen, how could they tolerate the appearance of such a royal family
Once such a powerful royal family controls the Central Plains, this interest group will eventually collapse.
Xiang Qingniu looked at Fang Jie and said with a heavy tone: "Those people you see now, whether it's Li Yuanshan or Gao Kaitai, are just the ones who were first introduced by those people to disrupt the overall situation. It's like thousands of years Like the stories that happened when the imperial court changed, in the end there will be a family that is not powerful and will become the new ruler. And because people like Gao Kaitai appeared before, the Central Plains have been completely messed up, and families that do not belong to that interest group suffered a devastating blow, so in the end, interest groups can easily choose a small family they can control to come to the stage and sit on that chair... "
Fang Jie took a deep breath: "Is this what Senior Wan told you?"
Xiang Qingniu nodded: "That's right, Master once said that he can't die too early, he should try his best to live for a few more years, because as long as he dies, the Central Plains will be in chaos."
Fang Jie suddenly remembered that when he left Chang'an, Wan Xingchen told him that he wanted to go out again in his lifetime.
It turns out that the place Wan Xingchen wants to walk is not the Daxue Mountain!