Xu Fengnian quietly returned to Qingliang Mountain. Just as Fan Xiaochai intuitively predicted, Beimang had indeed begun to drive troops southward, and it was still divided into three groups, each killing the three prefectures of Liangyouliu. This was very different from what Beiliang originally expected, because the enemy camp There was an extra Fatty Dong who temporarily seized power and took over the position of King of the South Court. Because the King of the North Court had been suspended after Xu Huainan's death, Dong Zhuo, who was not even a feudal official, became a man under one man and above ten thousand. Xu Fengnian was not sure whether it was the meticulous handwriting of the Taiping Order to manage Beiliang this time, or Dong Zhuo's deliberate nonsense. Many times he said that it is a stupid method that smart people are good at. But this kind of military affairs involving the final situation of the two dynasties is like a master's move. It not only competes for the depth of internal strength, but also tests the scheming of both sides. The traps set are especially taboo. There is no need to go too far to read the history books, it is in the Spring and Autumn Period that is close at hand, the reason why Xu Fengnian has such a headache, after all, is that Beiliang’s family background is far inferior to Beimang, and Empress Murong can be confident. The three roads blossomed, while letting Tuoba Bodhisattva lead the troops to suppress those prairie Daxitiao in Beiting, and at the same time use the elite cavalry of the Southern Dynasty to "tick" Beiliang, and even sent a large number of troops to station troops on the east line, to fight Gu Jiantang's creation The frontiers of Liao and Liao are eyeing each other. Of course, fools also know about the final confrontation on the eastern front. Liyang and Liangmang all know it well and are just putting on airs. Xu Fengnian, who was sitting alone in the pavilion listening to Chaohu Lake, thought of this, and couldn't help but smile wryly. It was difficult to force Tai'an City to submit by himself, so he had to relax the embargo on grain imports, and admit Liuzhou in disguise. It is said that the border trade in the north of Jizhou is much more lively than usual, and that Yuan Tingshan who was once threatened by Xu Fengnian to be skinned and cramp , when the situation was changing, after being thrown into the border of Jizhou by his adoptive father Gu Jiantang, he became even more prosperous, and now he has achieved the level of Lieutenant Daoma with 4,000 veterans of Beiji, and the 20th captain of Wubao under his command. Yu Zuo, who is in charge of the political affairs of the three counties at the same time, and the territory under his jurisdiction is getting closer and closer to Beiliang, the power in his hands is almost equivalent to half a governor plus a real general. A kind of silent sarcasm of the Northern Liang vassal. Especially after Li Huoli, the eldest son of Yanbao in Jizhou, died suddenly in Kuaixue Villa, Yuan Tingshan, who was very popular in the frontier area of Liyang Dynasty, was about to become the son-in-law of Yanbao. The famous woman of "Li Jia Falcon", and Yuan Tingshan and
Xu Fengnian was sitting on a bench in the pavilion, with two boxes of chess pieces on his knees, holding more than a dozen round and pleasant chess pieces. Over time, they were soaked in his body temperature and no longer felt cold.
Xu Fengnian's thoughts wandered to the city of Tai'an that he hated and feared deeply when he was a child, and he smiled, just like when he was a child, he always thought that Qingliang Mountain was already the highest mountain in the world. Eleven Peaks, after walking out of Beiliang, witnessed many majestic mountains and rivers with my own eyes. With the increase of experience, many deep-rooted thoughts of the year were involuntarily lightened.
After Qi Yanglong, the grand sacrificial wine of the Shangyin School Palace, entered Tai'an City, the slow-witted officials, who were slow to realize, also sensed a hint of a storm coming. It is even far inferior to Jin Lanting, the young man of Youjijiu. What is even more elusive is that there are seven schools under the jurisdiction of the Imperial College. It was only after Gu Jiantang resigned as Minister of the Ministry of War that he was able to pass the new martial arts. Qi Dajijiu, whose knowledge is as high as heaven, He unexpectedly became the most unpopular martial arts supervisor. In terms of quality, he was barely comparable to the straight-talking Guozixue. In terms of the original seat in the Imperial College, the neglected martial arts director was quite powerful compared to him. The officials of Guozixue are so far away from the entire royal road of the capital, but in fact, those straightforward speakers who were considered the Qingliu celebrities in the capital in the past are not worthy of lifting shoes for Qi Yanglong. There are nearly a hundred officials from the six schools headed by Jin Lanting in the Imperial College, and even the tens of thousands of students in the Imperial College are red-eyed. The family background is only considered middle-level in the capital, so there is no need for them to cry and shout to enter martial arts. It is the most benevolent city in the world where rich people gather. Who doesn't have a few rare calligraphy and paintings? Especially those who have been printed with the word "fake" by someone are the best stepping stones to smoothly enter the gates of the big bosses of the Ministry of Rites. Don't care how the people in the capital scold the young man in Beiliang because it involves authenticity identification. That guy's critical eye is very convincing, as long as the objects that he ruined as "fakes" are 100% genuine. Besides, although the young man's surname is Xu and not Zhao, he has become a serious vassal king at any rate, and defeated the old monster Wang who is recognized as invincible in the world. As long as he has his seal, it doesn't matter if it is Fang The round ones, a calligraphy and painting, can be sold at an astonishingly high price here in the capital.
Xu Fengnian didn't have any feelings about this matter, but was more concerned about the direction of the "Dragon-Deer War" that was about to come out. According to the secret report, this person who was praised as a great sacrificial wine who can be a million dollars, It’s not really a small fight in the one-acre three-point land of Guozijian Martial Arts, but it started to compile new scriptures under the instruction of the emperor of the Zhao family, and even as an official, it was the first time for the Zhao family to fully explain the Confucian sages. The classics and meanings seem to be icing on the cake for the imperial examination, but in fact they want to shake the foundation of Zhang Lu. This time Qi Yanglong led the compilation of the classics. Just by looking at the two assistants, you can see how much the emperor attaches importance to it. Yao Baifeng, and Yan Jiexi, a senior scholar who is a relative of the emperor, these two are only Qi Yanglong's assistant editors. Is Qi Yanglong really just compiling a few volumes of books? He is setting rules for all scholars in the world hundreds of years from today.
Xu Fengnian clenched the chess piece in his palm, and said to himself: "It's good that Bi Yaner lost, anyway, Zhang Lu has always been hostile to Beiliang, if Qi Yanglong can still suppress Bi Yaner, Beiliang's situation will only be worse in the future." It's getting worse and worse, isn't it? Is it extravagant to expect that Qi Shengren, who is destined to accompany the Taimiao, will look at Beiliang differently? Mr. Wang, who lost the debate between heaven and man, said that Qi Yanglong has always had a deep hatred for all the vassal kings including Beiliang. I once said, "You can seal the king, but you can't crack the soil." At first glance, he looks like an emperor's teacher for the king, but compared to his student Xun Ping, Qi Yanglong is undoubtedly a much more sophisticated and tactful teacher, and he knows what not to do. When should he go out of the mountain, anyway, he has the final say on how to be alone and help the world. First, the Beimang Peace Order, and then Qi Yanglong, how many opponents like this can't be missing?"
Xu Fengnian sighed, and looked away, Tai'an City is not worry-free, and the Beiliang Palace under his feet is not a scene of a small courtyard melting into the moon and a shallow pond with a light breeze.
Everyone in Qingliang Mountain knew that there was a hot big shot. He was a scholar from Luming County, Jiangnan Province. This Tao is an unprecedented high-ranking official position. It is reasonable to say that it should be one of the third rank and the second rank, but the Zhao family in Tai'an City turned a blind eye to this, neither reprimanding nor admitting it. From Beiliang's side to toss around. Rumor has it that, as a result of this, Wang Lvting, the head of the Lingzhou Golden Thread Weaving Bureau, has a big headache, and he doesn't know how to sew a decent official robe that fits the "Vice Economic and Strategic Envoy". Still undecided. Qingliang Mountain has long been familiar with this. The two scholars who were even younger before, Xu Beizhi, who was born in the Hua family of Beimang, have become the chief official of Lingzhou, and even Chen Xiliang, the son of Hanshu, has become the city shepherd of Qingcang City in Liuzhou. , one more scholar of the Song family who suddenly gained power, that's the same thing, not to mention that I heard that this person was the same as Yin Maochun, the current chief minister, during the Yonghui period when the pillars of the court surfaced one after another and carried the girders. Having competed for the No. 1 scholar, such a romantic person should start much higher than Xu and Chen. Now that the atmosphere in Beiliang has changed, the status of scholars has gradually risen. There are not so many gossips anymore, Xu and Chen had suffered a lot in this matter. Fortunately, even if he is a groom and cook on Qingliang Mountain, he is a character who has seen the world. He didn't think too much about Song Dongming's arrival. Traveling leisurely, he is not like Chen Xiliang who lives in seclusion and is extremely difficult to meet. He does not have an official robe that fits, so he wears an ordinary literati and Confucian shirt. He usually lives in an elegant courtyard on the mountainside. A gloomy staff member named Qingke, whose name in the small courtyard is Huaigui, has a bad meaning because of its homonym Huaigui. You can see the scenery of half of Liangzhou City from the window, which has been abandoned for many years. Song Dongming chose this place as a place to stay. The servants in the house only know that this person has never set foot on the parasol tree where "Yingyingyanyanyan holds red mud" However, there are often women in the courtyard who hold the power of Zhu in their hands and travel between the two places, and then strange faces continue to enter the Huaigui Courtyard. Some of them leave and others stay. The latter live in the stretching courtyard on the mountainside near Huaigui Courtyard Among them, this is very imaginative.
Xu Fengnian fell into deep thought. Song Dongming not only needed to use it, but also deserved it. However, compared to Xu Beizhi and Chen Xiliang, whose people's orientation was not complicated, Song Dongming was much more difficult to use.
Liang Mang's battle is imminent, just like he is holding a lot of chess pieces of excellent quality at this time, Bei Liang also holds a good chess piece, the stars are shining among the generals, Yan Wenluan, Jin Partridge Zhou Kang, Gu Dazu, He Zhonghu , Chen Yunchui, Chu Lushan, Yuan Zuozong, Ning Emei, Wang Lingbao, Li Mofan, etc., there are many talents, and they are simply inexhaustible. But what about Wen Chen? In particular, there are only a handful of officials who can make even Liyang covetously, not to mention being compared with the large wave of temple loyalists who sprung up like mushrooms during the Yonghui period. It is no wonder that the Liyang court likes to ridicule Beiliang for imitating Well, Xu Xiao is lame, and even the entire Beiliang officialdom is also lame. The civil and military imbalance is difficult to achieve. Fighting wars does not mean that warriors can be good at fighting and not afraid of death. Especially in the upcoming battles that require tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops to be invested in a partial battle, literati must first do not hold back. If they can still compete with warriors Complementing each other can save a lot of people from dying.
Xu Fengnian raised his head and frowned.
I saw that from the foot of Qingliang Mountain, yufu crossbows shot out continuously into the air. The closer to Tingchao Lake where he, the king of Beiliang, was taking a rest, the more dense the crossbows and arrows became. After the two heads of the fifth raccoon dog in Huainan and Tibingshan returned from Beimang, the gangsters who dared to assassinate the Prince of Beiliang disappeared completely. , are not fools who are willing to throw themselves into the net, especially after Xu Fengnian and Wang Xianzhi fought against the martial arts, many spring and autumn wealthy men who had been hiding in Beiliang for many years left the country silently along with the wealthy gentry. It's really disheartened. Xu Fengnian couldn't think of anyone who could completely hide his aura and come to the foot of Qingliang Mountain, and then rush into the house. Even Xu Fengnian couldn't clearly capture that blurred figure. It stands to reason that the Zhao family now wants him to wrestle with Bei Mang, and he can die. But you can’t die too early. As for Beimang, Hong Jingyan and Murong Baoding had just appeared in Liuzhou before. There shouldn’t be anyone single-handedly trying to deal with bad luck. Tuoba Bodhisattva has this strength, However, the state of mind of the Northern Mang Army God has always been more inclined to make contributions in an upright manner on the battlefield.
Just when Xu Fengnian was wondering, he saw a figure rushing out of Tingchao Pavilion not far away.
Xu Fengnian lost his mind for a moment.
Before he went up the mountain to practice swordsmanship, he brought back the white fox face. It was a snowy winter season, and the white fox face "walked the knife" on the lake. At that time, Xu Fengnian really thought that this was the world The first powerful knife technique. Looking back now, Bai Hu'er's face at that time was still superior in sword power and intent, but I'm afraid there is still a gap between Gu Jiantang and Cao Changqing's tit-for-tat confrontation in Tai'an City. But Baihuerlian was always the first time he confirmed the unmistakable master of the rivers and lakes during his three-year travel. Gradually appear in the field of vision, each with its own style, all of which make people admire and fascinate, and the awe of the world is born spontaneously.
The white fox face who came out of the building with a single knife and the tall figure passed by a hundred meters away from the lake pavilion.
Xu Fengnian stood up, and immediately recognized the identity of the assassin after a little stagnation that the assassin could not detect, it was an old senior who was completely unexpected.
An unknown swordsman who likes to eat swords, Sui Xiegu.
It was the old man's borrowing of the sword that allowed Xu Fengnian to save his life from the human cat Han Diaosi.
Xu Fengnian stood and walked out of the pavilion. Before he could go down the steps, the sword-eating ancestor came near the pavilion. The one-armed old man who exchanged arms with Li Chungang lifted the sleeve of the severed arm, and most of it was cut off. Tsk tusk: "At Gu Jiantang's age, he doesn't have such sharp sword skills. One knife is roughly equivalent to Gu Jiantang eight years ago. If two swords are used, is it still worth it?"
Xu Fengnian stepped down the steps and said with a smile, "This junior has met Senior Sui."
The old man went straight to the point and said: "You don't care about the hospitality of your family. You owe my life to this old man. First, I will give you seven or eight good swords to appetize. How to repay your kindness later, you can calculate slowly. All of Wang Xianzhi's belongings have been robbed, so I must have had a good time this trip."
Xu Fengnian laughed and said: "Unfortunately, the Patriarch of the Sword Tomb blocked the way in Hezhou earlier, seventy-eight out of ten of those famous swords were destroyed, but since it was an old senior who came to the door, and there are still some good swords in the house, the senior is indispensable. If you stay for one day, you will be full for one day."
The old man glanced at the young man who he could still look down on at the beginning, and laughed, "That's the most annoying thing about you, kid. Although he's not a good bird, he's not stingy when he says something."
The old man stepped into the Huxin Pavilion, Xu Fengnian followed behind and asked in a low voice: "Did Deng Tai'er enter Beiliang with senior?"
Sui Xiegu rolled his eyes and said: "He is not willing to get involved in temple disputes, and the old man is the same, but that woman Tantai Pingping is the only demon in my heart, and I have been thinking about it for eighty years. Since she came to Beiliang, The old man naturally has to keep an eye on her, and if she gets out of the wall, the old man can kill her right away."
Xu Fengnian couldn't laugh or cry, for this kind of entanglement that was longer than ordinary people's life, naturally he could only stand by and watch obediently.
Xu Fengnian soon got the news that Bai Huerian not only went out of the building, but also out of the city. He only wore a single-handed spring thunder, and without delay, he directly took Wang Sheng, who was helping to carry the Xiudong knife and tied the seven-handed sword, to Beimang At the end of the day, he was not even willing to say goodbye to him, which made Xu Fengnian feel a little sad.
After Sui Xiegu sat down, his words were earth-shattering, "With the help of Xie Feiyu, Chen Zhibao will soon catch up to Wang Xianzhi by capturing dragons big and small in Shu."
The old man gloated and said: "Xu Fengnian, could it be possible that your kid has a feud with the guy with Zhi in his name?"
Xu Fengnian shook his head with a wry smile, but he was startled and nodded slowly.
He remembered the most hidden shadow of the Great Qin Dynasty eight hundred years ago, whose name did not contain the word Zhi, but was called Cao Zhi.
The old man just said it casually, and he doesn't really care about this kind of numerology that is unclear and messy.
Xu Fengnian, with a gloomy face, leaned against the pillar of the pavilion and closed his eyes.
Then his complexion began to improve obviously, he stood up, stood up again and looked into the distance.
Sui Xiegu, who had two snow-white long eyebrows, stretched out two fingers, twirled one long eyebrow, stared at the young man whose mood had changed, and slowly fell into thought.
From the southeast where the stream is light and rainy to the northwest frontier where the yellow sand is rough and windy, a pair of master and apprentice walked thousands of miles, and finally they are about to enter Beiliang, and they are about to approach the Wudang Mountain, which is full of incense. At the end of the first year of Fu, he climbed the mountain in heavy snow.
At this time, the young master was carrying the exhausted young apprentice on his back, and he was not walking fast.
"Master, do you have to memorize a lot of books to become a Taoist priest?"
"maybe."
"Master, Mr. Xu said that you are the biggest Taoist priest on the mountain. Since I have become Master's apprentice, I must practice hard and devote myself to Taoism. I'm afraid I won't do well."
"Living in this world, being at peace with the situation is practice and a blessing."
"Master, I don't understand, what does it mean to live with the situation?"
"Just stop when you are tired, and go when you are not tired. We Taoists seek the Tao, but in fact, it is never in the sky, it is right under our feet."
"Master, let me go by myself, I'm not tired anymore."
"It's okay, Master will carry your back again."
"But Master, won't you be at peace with the situation?"
"Yu Fu, remember, there are some things in this world that are more important than cultivation."
"Um?"
"It's like when you are walking on the road and you see someone, even if you are not tired, you don't want to leave, then you can stop and look at her. It seems against the law of heaven, but in the eyes of Master's little uncle, things Emotions are smooth, and there is no violation of the Dao. If I don’t know the way, why do I need someone outside my heart to come to the way?”
"Oh, Master, it sounds really hard to be a Taoist priest. But Master, you also have an uncle?"
"Of course Master has Martial Uncles, and Master's Martial Uncles will also have Martial Uncles. In the future, people on the mountain will call you Martial Uncle and Martial Uncle."
"Master, look, the leaves of a tree over there are all red."
"Then shall we stop and have a look?"
"good!"
Wudang Taoist Li Yufu put his apprentice Yu Fu down, held his hand, and looked up at the sumac tree with bright red autumn leaves like fire.
Autumn trees are like women in red clothes.
I dare not count all the hexagrams, just because the world is impermanent. Don't dare to go deep, for fear of a big dream.
Li Yufu lowered his head and looked at the child with dazed eyes.
Little uncle, do you really want to have a dream for three hundred years
Li Yufu looked at the world and the earth respectively, his eyes were firm.
The world's testimony seems to be the way of heaven.
Everyone under their feet has a way to go, but they are forgotten.
No matter how high the way of heaven is, it will eventually have a top, and heaven and man sit high, euphemistically called ranking among the immortals.
The avenue is endless.
Why do you have to be so high up
Li Yufu smiled.
Little Martial Uncle, you told me not to follow your path before your military dissolution, I have always been unable to understand.
Now I understand a little bit.
Li Yufu let go of his hands, folded his hands, bowed slowly, and bent down three times. The first is to respect parents and teachers, the second is to respect heaven and earth, and the third is to respect the Dao in the heart.
All over the land of the Central Plains, thunder rolled, but for some reason, none of the thunder exploded into the world.