There was nothing to do after dinner, everyone chatted around the fire, and when the hour was almost up, they meditated and breathed out. Wei Xiaozhuang was able to get up and walk around, but it was still a bit difficult for the spiritual energy to circulate, and it would take two days to fully recover.
Su Emei took the initiative to take on the task of being on duty at night, responsible for adding fuel and fire, and guarding against wild animals and villains. Li Ye didn't care about this, but he was happy to save the effort of setting up a security circle. The most important thing in walking the rivers and lakes is to pretend to be a bear , Hiding strength, this is the same as walking outside without revealing your wealth.
Li Ye had nothing to say, he just took the opportunity of sitting quietly to think about the situation in Qingzhou.
As the core of Pinglu, where Jiedushi governed the state, Qingzhou gathered the most wealth in Pinglu. Correspondingly, apart from Penglai Daomen, the biggest forces were also here. I had done some research on the Tsingyi Yamen before. There are four major families in Qingzhou, two of which are old noble families and two are emerging wealthy families.
In the Tang Dynasty, although the tribute system had a large scale, due to historical reasons, the gentry was still the most powerful in the first hundred years, especially the Helong gentry, which was a noble family that had been passed down for a hundred years. After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the Shandong gentry also emerged one after another. , to gain a firm foothold in court and official circles, his strength should not be underestimated.
It's just that during the Anshi Rebellion, the gentry families suffered a lot. After that, feudal towns were established everywhere, and the power of the gentry families was hit hard. The collapse of the Fubing system stemmed from the severe land annexation, countless people were displaced, and the refugees were everywhere, so the recruitment system rose, and the towns recruited refugees to form the Fanzhen Army. Demand, let them hold tightly together and form a new refugee force in the feudal town, or the power of the feudal town army, which is very strong and stubborn.
They have resentment in their hearts, so they take their own interests very seriously. The origin of the arrogant soldiers and powerful generals is that the vassal town army resisted the local expropriation by Jiedushi in order to protect their own interests. Arrogant, if the Jiedu envoy does not know how to sympathize with the soldiers and does not safeguard the interests of the Fanzhen Army, the Fanzhen Army will expel him.
After the rise of the Fanzhen army, it was inevitable that there would be conflicts with the old gentry families in the control of land and property. However, they were the army, and scholars met soldiers. With an army of tens of thousands of people, the power of the gentry family was weakened step by step.
Therefore, it can be said that the disappearance of noble families in the long river of history is due to the rise of the tribute examination system (after the Song Dynasty, the imperial examination) system on the one hand, and the establishment of feudal vassals and towns on the other hand. The tribute examination could only be called Daxing in the Song Dynasty. Before the humble scholars passed the imperial examination system and replaced the status of the noble family, it was the vassal forces in the late Tang and Five Dynasties that dealt a heavy blow to the noble family.
The four major forces of Pinglu, or the four major families, two gentry families, and the other two are the two major surnames in the Pinglu Fanzhen army. Originally, the two are in the same situation, and Li Ye may not have an opportunity to take advantage of them, but Pinglu also has "Dong Penglai", one of the five great gates in the world.
The cultivation base of the head of Penglai has reached the ninth level of Qi training early, and now he is retreating to attack the realm of real people, and Penglai Xianmen masters are like clouds, and they have a thousand years of experience. In terms of monk strength alone, the Shence Army cannot match For example, the Penglai Taoism has too much influence on Pinglu, and has penetrated into the four major families. Li Ye wants to completely control Pinglu and make Pinglu obey him. First, he has to cross the threshold of Penglai. .
Li Ye was able to kill Liu Xingshen during the Battle of the Palace Change, but he relied on the power of the Penglai Golden Spirit Pill. Now that his Golden Spirit Pill is used up, who knows how many there are in Penglai. If Li Ye went in rashly, a large group of people would rush out What should he do at the ninth level of Qi training
As a thousand-year-old Taoist sect of Pinglu, Penglai has a deep-rooted influence on Pinglu. The gentry family and the army of the vassals are incomparable. Therefore, no matter how hostile the two are, they must be restrained by Penglai. What's more, Penglai is still the leader of the Pinglu Jianghu. , who is not in awe of Penglai? Penglai has a life, who would dare not obey? Just like the leader of Pinglu martial arts.
As for Li Ye, in the eyes of many people, to put it bluntly, he is an official for one term, and he will leave after a few years at most ten years. For projects, Mongolian and Mongolian bureaucrats have been evaluated for promotion, and those with poor official rank or no hope of promotion will directly embezzle and accept bribes and extort money, seize the time to absorb wealth, or both, completely ignoring the damage to the local area.
This has become a pair of irreconcilable contradictions with the local forces. The Jiedushi put the local disasters to an end and left with wealth. Yes, they have to clean up the mess, and over time, they will have a good face towards Jiedushi Neng
Five prefectures of Pinglu, Qi, Zi, Qing, Lai, Deng, from west to east. The reason why Li Ye went to Qizhou first was to "lay down" a piece of land as a bridgehead and springboard to further control Pinglu. In the words before crossing, this is the frontline base. Li Ye must first manage Qizhou well. Only when he was in Pinglu, he had his own power, and now he entered Qingzhou, he had room to make a difference.
Bringing Su Emei and Wei Xiaozhuang into the Pinglu Rivers and Lakes will not appear abrupt and attract attention. Li Ye wants to take this opportunity to see with his own eyes what the Pinglu Rivers and Lakes are like, and find a way to break the situation. opportunity.
Otherwise, he would plunge into Pinglu, facing the complicated situation in Pinglu, Li Ye didn't know where to start.
When Li Ye sorted out these things in his mind, Su Emei had already given up talking.
Although she was still sitting cross-legged, her mind was a little confused.
During the days when I went down the mountain, when I came to the rivers and lakes, I was shocked by various senses, which was similar to that of Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden.
Su Emei thought about what she had seen and heard these days, and she couldn't help but focus on Li Ye. The latter was the stranger she had spent the longest time in the Jianghu. Although his appearance did not meet Su Emei's aesthetics, Su Emei also She is not the kind of woman who judges people by their appearance. Thinking of Li Ye's actions today, she is very curious about Li Ye, and wants to see what kind of person this guy is.
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Li Ye became the medium through which Su Emei learned about the world.
"I just don't know how to cultivate." Su Emei closed her eyes and thought silently in her heart, "Master said that for people in the rivers and lakes, cultivation is the most important thing. As long as the cultivation is high enough, everything is not a problem. .”
Su Emei was thinking about all kinds of things, but she didn't realize that someone had already appeared in the darkness behind the carriage.
In all directions, inside and outside the forest, nearly ten black shadows who were good at hiding were approaching them.
Suddenly, a stream of light flashed.
The fire in front of Su Emei exploded without warning, and the firewood bloomed like fireworks. When the flickering fire just rose, it suddenly went out, and the surroundings fell into darkness instantly.
Su Emei stood up in surprise, grabbed the long sword beside her, and drew it out of its sheath with a bang.
Before she could see the scene in front of her clearly, in the pitch-black darkness, suddenly a group of strong light exploded in front of her eyes, the white light was extremely intense, and it was unknown what magic weapon it was, illuminating Su Emei's beautiful and nervous face, It also damaged her eyes, she had to turn her head to dodge and put out her hand to block her eyes.
But at this time, three sword qi had already flown towards Su Emei from different directions. Her vision was greatly damaged, and she could only see a little starlight, and the sword qi was in front of her!
Although Su Emei has no experience in the world, it is not that she has experienced battles. Her Wei Xiaozhuang's cultivation base and combat power have been tempered by the master on the mountain.
Su Emei will never forget that on many dark and moonless nights, Master and Xiaozhuang would break in through the window and assassinate her. She will not forget that when she and Master went to assassinate Wei Xiaozhuang, the other party's panic appearance.
Su Emei stepped back quickly, and raised the long sword obliquely.
Countless pieces of sword light splashed like fish scales formed an arc and lit up in front of her, and a flying sword energy was directly crushed by the fish scale sword light. At the same time, she leaned back, twisted her slender waist, and a sword qi passed her chest.
However, Su Emei, whose body was changing at this time, could no longer avoid the sword energy from the left that was approaching her waist!
In an instant, Su E's brows turned pale, her hands and feet were cold, and she leaned back, just in time to see a black shadow jumping out of the forest behind her.
The opponent jumped under the crescent moon, which just blocked the moonlight, and in the opponent's hand, a saber aura had already been cut out, like a falling comet, it instantly arrived in front of her!
"Middle stage of Qi training!" Su Emei's pupils shrank suddenly.
The other party turned out to be in the middle of Qi training, and his cultivation base was not much weaker than hers. She couldn't hide from this knife training, and she couldn't catch it!
Su Emei never expected that someone would suddenly come out in the middle of the road, and with such skillful techniques and coordination, they would launch a thunderous assassination on her!
Before going down the mountain, the master never said that there were any enemies down the mountain. Her reaction and response are fast enough, but she still can't deal with such a Jianghu assassin who is good at hiding and so sophisticated!
When a flash of deep despair flashed in Su E's brows, she felt as if she had kicked something in her heel, or was kicked by something, it was very abrupt, and she immediately fell back uncontrollably. !
The fine sword aura on the left passed directly across her chest, and a hole was cut in the navy blue taoist robe immediately. The cold sword aura made Su Emei's high chest feel the coolness soaked into the snowy skin!
But it didn't stop there, the sword energy didn't hurt her at all.
However, Su Emei was not surprised at all, because the saber energy in mid-air had already reached her, and in her eyes, a fishing line suddenly magnified, and the dazzling light had already illuminated her pale face!
A strand of black hair flitted across Su Emei's cheek, and she felt itchy to the touch, and then Su Emei saw a sleeve rising in front of her, as if someone raised his palm to the sky.
But in an instant, the sleeves were retracted, and Su Emei regained her vision again, but what she saw was a sky full of stars. In the far away night sky, the Milky Way was like a belt, which surpassed all the brilliant pearls in the world!
What about sword spirit
Su Emei was surprised to find that the saber energy had completely disappeared.
It wasn't until this moment that she felt that her back didn't fall to the ground, but fell to a warm place, like someone's lap sitting cross-legged, not cold at all.
Before Su Emei had time to figure out the situation, the Milky Way was blocked by sparrows.
That's not a sparrow, but a figure leaping high like a sparrow!
They raised their long swords high and slashed at Su Emei suddenly. As they jumped, their long hair was thrown straight up, and the sword energy fell like a waterfall, blocking the stars in the Milky Way!
The assassin's attacks were continuous, with no gap between the front and back.
The rapidly changing image flashed in Su Emei's eyes, and the four sword qi had already slashed in front of her, and she didn't even have time to jump up!
In the blink of an eye, she felt a big warm hand grabbing her waist. Su E's eyes widened, and just as she was about to make a sound, she felt a whirl of heaven and earth, and four sword qi fell around her!
In the crisp sound, the blasted soil splashed like water, and Su Emei felt the coolness of the cold wind, but she didn't feel any pain, because no sword energy hurt her!
Su Emei suddenly felt light all over, she looked up in astonishment, and found that she was flying towards the stars.
The night wind whistled in his ears.
The dirt that was blown away by the sword energy did not fall on her at all!
An arm straightened her shoulder, and then reached her waist, encircling her lower abdomen from behind. The warm palm felt so clearly, and the subtle touch was like lightning, shaking Su E's delicate body. She finally realized that she It has already risen to mid-air, and the forest and the official road are all under her feet!