The next day, Mr. Ghost sat in front of the hall, Luo Xuan brought a table and put it on the inside of the hall. Jiang Heng took his seat nervously, and Luo Xuan brought inkstone and paper to grind ink for him.
"No articles," Mr. Ghost said lightly, "the articles are all false, you can answer if you ask Mr.
Jiang Heng took his mind back, couldn't help being nervous, and nodded. Luo Xuan was about to leave, but Mr. Ghost said, "Sit down, don't run away."
Jiang Heng took a deep breath, only to hear Mr. Gui plucked the violin twice, and in the sound of ding dong, he asked, "In the five kingdoms in the world today, which country do you think the monarch can support and end this world of great competition?"
Jiang Heng never expected that Mr. Ghost came up and asked such a question that he couldn't shirk.
"Think clearly." Mr. Ghost raised his eyebrows at Jiang Heng again.
Jiang Heng turned his head and looked at Luo Xuan, and Mr. Ghost couldn't help laughing and laughing again: "Luo Xuan, how did you teach your disciples, and you still need to ask the master for help at this time?"
There was a smile in Luo Xuan's eyes, but there was no distinction.
Jiang Heng said hurriedly: "No, no, sir, I'm just used to it... um."
Luo Xuan was not angry, but said seriously: "Just answer what you think."
After a while of silence in the hall, Jiang Heng replied, "I think it's Zheng Guo."
Mr. Ghost nodded, unable to see whether his expression was approval or thinking.
"Dai Guo King Wu was stubborn. Thirteen years ago, when the qin played in the world, after the death of the Prime Minister of the Dynasty, the son Sheng, the King Wu became more violent and embarrassed." Jiang Heng explained, "The four sons are either impulsive in temperament, or afraid of King Wu. Authoritarian, only to promise, no successor, contending with the Ying Kingdom for many years, although winning the land, but neglecting governance, oppressing the people, and even domestic complaints."
Mr. Ghost fiddled with the strings and motioned for him to continue.
Next, Jiang Heng began to analyze the military strength of the Daiguo court, which was the military court, and detailed the history of the fortunes of the Shu people for generations above the Daiguo, and then changed the topic and said solemnly: "As for the Ying Kingdom that borders it, Ying The king is arrogant and arrogant, and has no one in his eyes..."
As the sun went down, from the beginning of Dai, to Ying, and then to Liang, when Liang Guo was mentioned, Jiang Hengte talked about the impact of the thirteen years after the murder in Anyang.
"Liang Guo was severely injured under Geng Yuan's hands, and they need time to recover." Jiang Heng said, "In the past 13 years, Liang has always been very careful, but he still couldn't help participating in the battle of the royal capital five years ago. In this battle, the situation that Liang Guo had managed to recover with great difficulty was completely lost."
"Zheng State is adjacent to the East China Sea and is an important place in the Central Plains. The long and narrow ancient road is directly adjacent to the Yubi Pass. The people of Zheng have been shipping and farming for thousands of years. The land is rich. Although King Zheng is old, he supported the reform of the whole country when he was young. The most vibrant country."
"Prince Ling has a very high evaluation among the five kingdoms." Jiang Heng added, "Zheng Kingdom always has a sense of urgency, they must hold their throats, otherwise once Yong Kingdom comes south, they will bear the brunt of the fall. "
Mr. Ghost said "um" and plucked the strings a few more times.
"But at the end of the day," Jiang Heng sighed and said, "it's just taller than shorter."
"You also know." Luo Xuan said coldly, and finally said the first sentence.
In the past four years, Jiang Heng has also often discussed with his master Luo Xuan. After all, who can become the new king and rule the whole world? Looking at the state, no monarch of any country is suitable, so much has been said, but the more inappropriate ones are excluded, leaving one that is relatively less inappropriate.
Mr. Ghost said, "Jiang Heng, don't you care if you don't mention Yongguo at all?"
Jiang Heng replied: "If Juicang is still alive, there may be hope. But now there is Juicong left in the royal family of Yong. If he enters the customs, it will be a disaster for the people of the Central Plains, and if he comes to the emperor, it will be a disaster for the whole world. ."
Jiang Heng did not shy away at all, and added: "If Juicang was already dead when my father was still alive, then I think, with Juicong's affection, I couldn't persuade him to assassinate him in the League."
Mr. Ghost said again: "Now I want to ask one more thing, what the world's number one assassin, Geng Yuan, did back then, right?"
"The current answer is still the same sentence, sir, I don't know." Jiang Heng raised his head and replied with a little confusion in his eyes, "But I know that if I were him, I would not do this."
Mr. Ghost nodded.
"I'll ask you a second question tomorrow, let's go." Mr. Ghost said.
It was night, Jiang Heng and Luo Xuan were in the yard under the spring breeze, holding food boxes for dinner.
Luo Xuan did a good job of cooking and took care of Jiang Heng when he was growing up, so he gave him the fish belly and the fish body, and he used chopsticks to remove the fish head dexterously.
"Master." Jiang Heng was a little uneasy, wondering if he had lost Luo Xuan's person in today's homework exam.
"It's okay." Luo Xuan and Jiang Heng were with him for a long time. Jiang Heng moved his mouth a little and knew what he wanted to say, "You think better than me."
Jiang Heng sat cross-legged on the ground. He was already an adult. Luo Xuan looked at him, as if he wanted to find some of the childishness and laughter he had when he first arrived at Haige from the face of an adult Jiang Heng, but Jiang Heng was no longer the same as when he was a child. In everything, ask him what he means before making a decision.
"Will you send me down the mountain?" Jiang Heng said.
Luo Xuan: "If your husband doesn't let you go down the mountain, you won't go?"
Jiang Heng knew very well in his heart why he accepted him as a disciple and asked him to learn the lessons of a hundred schools of thought.
This day is at hand.
"I'll teach you something else." Luo Xuan said after Jiang Heng finished eating, packed up the food box, and threw it aside.
At night, Jiang Heng sat in front of the mirror, Luo Xuan smeared sticky powder on both hands, held a human|skin|mask|tool, and raised his eyebrows at Jiang Heng.
Jiang Heng saw Luo Xuan's box in the corner of the bookstore, but he didn't open it, thinking it was a disguise technique.
Luo Xuan first disguised himself, and soon he dressed up as Mr. Ghost.
"Like it?" Luo Xuan said.
Except for the clothes, it is exactly the same! Jiang Heng couldn't help sighing and said, "Teach me, Master!"
Luo Xuan replied: "Only voice and figure are not good at disguising, and disguise is not everything. Like Songhua, I can't pretend."
Then, Luo Xuan began to teach Jiang Heng how to disguise as an old woman, an old man, a young man, and even a woman.
The next day, Jiang Heng came to Mr. Ghost again. Mr. Ghost played the piano and asked a second question.
"What kind of person do you think the person who can serve as the future emperor of Shenzhou should be?" Mr. Ghost asked again.
Jiang Heng understood what Mr. Ghost meant after yesterday's question.
This will be his mission - in the near future, Mr. Ghost will definitely let him go to the world, looking for a person who has the ability to become the emperor, order the world, and end the troubled world.
"I think he can be anyone." Jiang Heng replied.
This answer was a big surprise to Mr. Ghost. I saw him pressing the strings with one hand, raising his eyebrows and asking, "What's wrong?"
Luo Xuan frowned, glanced at Jiang Heng, and motioned for him to think clearly before answering.
"The chaos in the world is in people's hearts," Jiang Heng replied. "People are not peaceful, and China is not peaceful. The emperor is a human being. As long as he is human, he has his own desires. Is it possible to find a saint to come to the emperor? Where can I find it? Go? What’s more, heaven and earth are not benevolent and take all things as dogs, and saints are not benevolent and take the common people as dogs. When a saint is a son, must he be better than a villain?”
Jiang Heng thought for a while, and then said, "Even if there is a generation of saints, can we still replace them?"
Mr. Ghost nodded, and the hall was silent. Jiang Heng thought about it for a long time, and said, "To keep the world in order and not be influenced by the monarch's selfish desires, we must make it like a waterwheel, turning itself endlessly for thousands of years. In other words, who is the emperor? , should not be the factor that determines turmoil or peace in the world."
Mr. Ghost was silent, Jiang Heng added: "It doesn't even matter if there is an emperor. If you want Shenzhou to restore peace and prosperity, you must be a good butcher and become the honor of the Nine Five, and the people will not be disturbed. Prepare."
"Then the imperial court will be re-established," replied Mr. Ghost, "the emperor will return to the world."
Jiang Heng sighed: "Yes. As for how to do it, it is difficult."
Mr. Ghost: "It's just that you have to find such a person first, and let him be willing to belong to the world."
Jiang Heng nodded and said, "Yeah, it's too difficult."
Luo Xuan didn't quite understand. He wanted to say something, but when he saw Jiang Heng and Mr. Gui's questions and answers, it was very natural, so he didn't interrupt.
The second question was soon over.
Mr. Ghost originally prepared many remarks to break the question, and wanted to ask Jiang Heng, but he expected Jiang Heng to answer like this, but there is no need to say the next words.
"There should be a third question tomorrow," Mr. Ghost was silent for a moment, and then said, "Since there is still time today, I might as well ask you together."
Jiang Heng replied respectfully, "Yes."
"Based on what you have learned," Mr. Ghost said again, "if you choose a country and settle down the world, what must you do? How long will it take?"
Song Hua shook a map aside, and with a "crash" sound, the map flew over and landed in the hall. Above are the winding Great Wall and Yubi Pass, as well as the map of the Five Kingdoms, extending to the vast land outside the Sierra and the north.
Luoyan, the capital of Yong State in the north, Anyang, the capital of Liang State in the Central Plains, the coast of the East China Sea, Jeju, the capital of Zheng State, and Shudi are surrounded by mountains, and the two cities of Xichuan and Hanzhong, the capitals of the State and the State. The coast of Wanhu Lake in the south, the beautiful Yingdu Jiangzhou - all in the painting.
Dotted all over the land of China, there are one hundred and twenty-seven cities, large and small, with thousands to thousands of households, separated by the borders of various countries.
Luo Xuan held a chess piece in his hand and handed it to Jiang Heng.
"Master, sir," Jiang Heng said, "Haenu. I... I'm not good at learning, so I can only talk on paper and try my best."
With that said, Jiang Heng knelt down on the map, placed the first chess piece on the capital of Zheng State, Jeju, raised his head and said, "As I said earlier, Zheng is the first to initiate this era of ending the Great War. The place is also the first place to drop chess."
"And the Yong Kingdom, we must drive them out of the fortress as soon as possible and retake the Yubi Pass." Jiang Heng pushed Zheng Kingdom's chess pieces and joined the other three countries to approach the Yubi Pass, saying, "As long as the four countries in the pass can work together, we can eliminate the Yong Kingdom's tigers and wolves. It's not difficult to ride."
Mr. Ghost said: "Many times of coalition forces have failed. Yongdu has fought back against the water, but instead he has continued to sit up. Do you really think that it is the best plan to face Juicyong before Guanqian, and then start a war of charred life?"
Jiang Heng said: "We don't need to attack Yongdu, and we don't need to let innocent people die. What we want is to consume Yong's troops. The biggest trouble they face now is that almost everyone in the country is a soldier. One, if one dies, one less..."
"Sword Comes"
"As long as the Yubi Pass is recaptured," Jiang Heng knelt down and climbed to the direction of Daiguo, "and half the success. With the Great Wall as the boundary, Zheng and Daiguo can echo the horns and lock Yongguo. Yongguo only needs to Encountered a major defeat, the troops were wasted, and the ethnic groups in the country were mixed, and there would definitely be chaos. They would block their trade routes and loot their food. Within 20 years, the already unstable Yong Kingdom would definitely collapse. Liang Guojing suffered repeated setbacks. Afterwards, my vitality was severely damaged…”
The light of the setting sun shone into the hall and cast it on Jiang Heng's back, and his shadow was cast on the map. He had said for more than two hours that all the troops in the world had gathered in the capital of King Zheng, and Zheng's territory was also It has expanded to nearly 80% of the land of China.
"...To sum up, in this way, in the next 20 years, the world will die due to wars, and nearly 400,000 people will die." Jiang Heng replied, "But as long as most of the area is in the hands of Zheng State, the people can truly No more wars, plagues, and famines. Let them go back to the fields to work, and then…”
Jiang Heng wiped his sweat, and the chess pieces that spread out from the Zheng Kingdom have covered the entire Central Plains.
"It's about rectifying the domestic court." Jiang Heng raised his head and said Mr. Chaogui.
Mr. Ghost said lightly: "The next thing, let's talk about it tomorrow."
Jiang Heng nodded, very tired, and replied, "Yes, sir."
That night, Luo Xuan was still adjusting his disguise mask in the bookstore, teaching Jiang Heng his final skills, and said to the little apprentice, "Are you ready?"
Jiang Heng said, "A little bit."
The master and apprentice looked at the mirror, Luo Xuan changed his face for Jiang Heng, but Jiang Heng did not know who it was, but he was also a young man.
Jiang Heng: "Who is this?"
Luo Xuanman said casually, "I just pinched it, but today you are very different from you four years ago, and your voice has also changed. Even if you go back to the capital Luoyang, no one will recognize you. But It is to teach you, in case of emergency."
Jiang Heng and Luo Xuan were wearing single clothes and looked at each other quietly in the mirror.
At the end, Luo Xuan broke the silence and said, "Come and try? Change my face."
Jiang Heng then used Yirong's stone powder, turned it away, put his hand on Luo Xuan's face, and trimmed his eyebrows again. When the skin touched, Jiang Heng's fingers touched Luo Xuan's hot face.
"Master," Jiang Heng whispered, "will you go down the mountain?"
"No." Luo Xuan said indifferently, "You can finally get out."
Jiang Heng laughed, went to get the eyebrow pencil, and said, "Thank you, Master."
"I can't learn anything," Luo Xuan said indifferently, "I wasted my time, as stupid as a donkey."
Jiang Heng said: "Today, I was suddenly a little scared. I thought that I might stay here for the rest of my life and not leave."
Luo Xuan looked at the mirror and suddenly asked, "Whose face is it?"
Jiang Heng watched for a while, but did not answer.
Luo Xuan said, "Is this your brother?"
Jiang Heng changed his face for Luo Xuan according to his memory. After a while, he said, "I don't know... I can't remember. If he was still alive, it might not be like this."
That was only Jiang Heng's memory, Geng Shu's appearance, and even many details, even he became blurred, but it was only five years, when he recalled Geng Shu's eyebrows, Geng Shu's mouth corners, it was impossible for a moment. Start.
Luo Xuan turned his head to the side, looked at Jiang Heng, and said nothing.
"After leaving," Jiang Heng said, "can I come back?"
Luo Xuan didn't answer, got up, and Jiang Heng watched "Geng Shu" walk aside and sat beside the couch.
Luo Xuan hugged his knees, thought about it for a long time, and replied, "You can't learn well. Before you go down the mountain, you will learn for a few more years."
Jiang Heng suddenly laughed. He understood what Luo Xuan meant by this sentence. It was the kind of reluctance that he never wanted to show, buried under his always impatient expression, when he wasn't careful.
"Master," Jiang Heng said softly, "I know, I should go."
Just like the scene in front of him, the resurrected Geng Shu is looking at him, as if to say that he has been in the Central Plains, waiting for his arrival. And one day, if he can end this world of great strife and return the people to a peaceful world, it will be the best gift to meet him again.
Luo Xuan got up to wash his face, Jiang Heng silently put away everything, and it was dawn.