On the south side of Tai'an City, an old man and a young man stand out from the crowd amidst the clatter of iron armor. The old man is dressed in linen shoes and carries a long sword on his back. He looks like a normal swordsman. Very slim, she not only carries a sword on her back, but also wears two swords on her waist, and holds a sword in her hand, so she doesn't look like a female swordsman, but like a little girl selling swords in the street. The two of them are Chai Qingshan, the current suzerain of Dongyue Sword Pool, and the single bait garment that was presented by the young vassal king in Fushu Town with a copy of "Lvshuiting Sword Practice Record". A few people left the city aggressively before, but they flew back to the city, their bodies embedded in the city wall, like flies and mosquitoes being slapped on the windows. Looking at the pair of Jianchi masters and apprentices with a huge age gap, they finally regained some courage.
The girl's complexion is a little pale. It's not that her physique is not as good as that of ordinary soldiers, but that after the martial arts has really entered the room, the sense of energy between heaven and earth will be different from ordinary people. Qi fighters can use this to see the signs of the flow of energy in the world.
Her master, Chai Qingshan, is a well-deserved master of swordsmanship. Since he chose her as a closed-door disciple, he naturally took a fancy to her outstanding talent. Talent is second only to Jiang Si, the empress of Western Chu. The girl whose name is homophonic "three two one" only felt that she was standing on the top of Emperor Wu's city, and would be smashed to death by the huge waves in the next moment. She gritted her teeth and clenched her long sword, her delicate body was on the verge of falling, until Chai Qingshan reached out. Putting one hand on the ancient sword "Young Phoenix" on her back, the girl felt relieved, took a long breath, and said in a trembling voice: "Master, what exactly is Mr. Cao trying to do? Could it be that he really wants to break through it with his own power? The capital? Will you stop after entering the palace for the fifth time?"
In recent years, Chai Qingshan, who has traveled all over the world with young girls, shook his head and said, "Master, I don't know what Cao Changqing is looking for from Confucianism and Daoism to domineering."
The girl looked at the lonely green shirt outside the city, and felt a little inexplicable sadness. It was rumored that the high official who had served as a chess player in Western Chu had a heart for the Empress of Western Chu, but she never expressed it in her whole life. , always abide by the etiquette of the monarch and his ministers, and finally ended up with a yin and yang separation without breaking his mind. The girl didn't care whether the scholar who became a Confucian sage on the ancient battlefield of Xileibi was the most proud of Cao's family, and she didn't even care about Cao Qingyi's feat of passing through the Liyang Palace three times in the early years, she already had some feelings in her heart The ignorant girl is just a little envious of the poor girl who has been scolded for 20 years and ruined the country and the people. Even if she is written as an unbearable vixen by various unofficial histories, she is regarded as the chief culprit for the destruction of the Great Chu, but the girl just thinks that she will die if she has one day Yes, it's great to still have such an infatuated person caring about her after death. Thinking of this, the girl sighed softly, raised her arm, and gently patted her chest with the half-finished sword "White Mang" in her hand. Huang's cheat book "Green Water Pavilion". There, probably is her peace of mind. It was also the reason why she practiced sword hard for the first time after leaving Beiliang. That young man was tall and slender, so when he talked to her in the summer escape town at the foot of Wudang Mountain, he always bowed his head. Although he had a gentle smile, he only regarded her as an innocent girl in the rivers and lakes, and it didn't matter if she passed by. It's just the juniors who meet again. She doesn't like it.
As Cao Changqing dropped his pieces on the chessboard again, a rainbow light as thick as the pillars of the Hall of Martial Arts plummeted down from the sky. There was another huge earthquake in Tai'an City.
Chai Qingshan didn't look at the magnificent beam of light falling in the city behind him, and said with emotion: "From ancient times to the present, our generation of swordsmen has tirelessly pursued the great achievement realm of Qi Chong Bullfighting and Qi Penetrating Changhong. , into the human world from the blue sky. Gao Shulu’s so-called mysterious and mysterious heavenly man is nothing more than that. A good Cao Changqing is like adding ten feet to a hundred-foot scroll.”
If there are qi practitioners from the north at this time standing at the top of the city, you will find some traces of purple aura in Tai'an City, like gurgling water slowly flowing into the girl's seven orifices, but the girl herself doesn't know it, and even Chai Qingshan, who had reached the Micro Finger Profound Realm of Tongyou Cave very early, didn't notice it either. Lines are separated like mountains, although the two realms of celestial phenomena and terrestrial immortals are separated by only one layer, they are two completely different worlds.
The girl suddenly asked curiously: "Besides the pure martial arts, among the three religions, Buddhist eminent monks enter the first rank to become Vajra, Taoist real people enter the first rank to refer to Xuan, and Confucianism goes straight to heaven in one step. Master, you were always vague before. Why did you only say three things?" In fact, there is no distinction between high and low? Why is it especially difficult for Confucian saints?"
The old man hesitated for a moment, as if he was unwilling to tell the truth, and he seemed unwilling to let his proud disciple get in touch with that level too early, and finally couldn't get over the girl's pitiful eyes. Chai Qingshan said helplessly: "Master, you have heard the next words Forget it, don’t take it seriously, let alone take it seriously, lest the sword’s heart be uncertain and hinder your original kendo. In the early years, the master often went to Daxueping, Huishan, and had many knee-to-knee talks with a scholar named Xuanyuan Jingcheng. He has unique views on the saints of the three religions, and his words are not surprising. For example, he talked about the common saying of the world, "put down the butcher knife and become a Buddha immediately". You must have heard this saying countless times. Xuanyuan Jingcheng's view on this is not It’s not the same, what he said is very good, it has the merit of exhorting the world to abandon evil and follow good, but at the same time it is also harmful. You must know that the only way to become a Buddha is to rely on gradual hard work, which requires hard work and hard work. Just like the phrase "articles are made by nature and occasionally obtained", the writer who said this is naturally very reasonable, but to many "others", it is very unreasonable. Xuanyuan Jingcheng has said many pioneers, especially For nearly a thousand years, those scholars who have changed from scholars to rich men have all pursued the three immortals advocated by the Zhang family sages, and made meritorious deeds. Xuanyuan Jingcheng made a difference to this. Lamenting that the people of later generations went astray, he gave an example of burying a son and caring for his mother. This action undoubtedly fits all good filial piety and is respected by countless people, but Xuanyuan Jingcheng asserts that this person is destined to have a rare good fruit. If there is really a divine will in the dark, then this person's actions are destined to be punished by the heavens and cannot be transcended. All things are born to support people. According to common sense, people should feed back the heaven and the earth. Taoist saints have long left The next three thousand words warn future generations, "the world is not benevolent, and everything is a humble dog", which is exactly the way of heaven and the selflessness, not the so-called "inhumane and unrighteous" that some people mistakenly think. Xuanyuan Jingcheng very much recognizes "heaven and earth "Inhumane" four characters, but at the same time, he also said that they are scholars, precisely because they want to know that the destiny cannot be violated, but they want to go against the current and set up rules for the world, so that everyone can enjoy long-term peace and stability. , and finally extended the extremely soul-stirring sentence, "Build a heart for the world, build a life for the people, inherit the knowledge of the past, and create peace for all generations!" But, disciple, if you think about it carefully, if there are gods in the world, Do we need people to point fingers? Take a step back and say that the world is peaceful forever, which really conforms to the rules of the cycle of heaven? So, people with great wisdom in Confucianism, especially those who are among the sages of Confucianism, don’t worry about themselves and future generations , all of them have a passionate heart that although tens of thousands of people will go, they will not hesitate to die with the heavens, and all of them are dying generously."
The girl snorted.
After the old man finished speaking, he sighed frequently, with mixed feelings.
Chai Qingshan asked with a smile: "Do you understand?"
The girl grinned, and said confidently: "I don't understand at all."
The old man couldn't help laughing, and rubbed her head, "You don't need to understand. It's good to be confused, and you can live a hundred years at ease. Otherwise, you will live full of depression and exhaustion. We sword practitioners can sing with a three-foot sword. Injustice is enough."
Chai Qingshan said softly: "I have been to Beiliang, I have seen the desolate border scenery with my own eyes, and I have seen the pass of the battlefield, so I know that we people in the rivers and lakes are happy and happy. It is too difficult to withstand scrutiny. But apprentice , you don’t need to blindly dislike Liyang just because you are fighting for injustice for Beiliang. Master tells you that if there is a day when Beimang’s army breaks through the border between Liao and Liao, countless people in this city today who scold Beiliang will be desperate and will do the same. If you say die, you will die. Even if the barbarians of the Northern Mang fight all the way to the Guangling River, they will never walk into a land without people, but only on both sides of the iron horseshoes, all the people who died in the battle of Liyang."
The people of Liyang respect martial arts and serve as chivalrous men. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "scholars from the Central Plains travel to the north to study, and Liyang rangers go to the south to fight for righteousness". Liyang people are uneducable northern barbarians. But in the past 20 years, especially when Gu Jiantang resigned as Minister of the Ministry of War and entered the Liangliao, and guarded the border gates with Xu Xiao's Beiliang iron cavalry on the left and right, Bei Mang was unable to go south half a step. Reporting worries, coupled with the fact that countless scholars entered Liyang, the imperial court promoted the imperial examination, and opened the dragon gate for the poor people of the world. The capital only said that the Guozijian was one place, and it accommodated nearly 30,000 scholars from all over the world. Scholars are like crossing the river. The influx of crucian carp and the gathering of tyrants and wealthy businessmen from all over the world have created Tai'an City in just 20 years, which is not inferior to the heyday of the big Chu capital in the early years. The first emperor Zhao Dun spared no effort to promote the literati in the temple. Except for Zhang Lu and Gu Lu, who were facing each other at that time, almost all the Qing Party officials who were officials in the capital were literati, and a large group of young scholars were able to enter the imperial court. The Jiangnan Road with a continuous style of writing has provided a large number of pillars for the imperial court. Even a large number of Western Chu adherents, led by the old grand master of Western Chu Sun Xiji, put aside their national hatred and chose to serve the Zhao family. An old man in the Spring and Autumn Period, after more than 20 years of recuperation and effective actions, the Liyang court has shown a pattern of high culture and low martial arts. If it weren't for the "ready to move" of the restoration of the Western Chu and the disaster of Guangling Road and Beiliang, I am afraid that as Liyang Ma Zhongxian, a member of the first-class family of meritorious service, will not be able to be released as a Jing'an Taoist envoy in this life.
The current Liyang, on the surface, seems to be in a state of great power, and even the Western Chu rebellion is about to be suppressed, but even Chai Qingshan can see that it is a delicate situation that is leaking from all sides.
The girl has never been interested in the general situation of the world, so she pouted, "But I still feel that Beiliang is even more pitiful."
The old man laughed and said, "Master didn't say that Beiliang is not worthy of your grievances, but I just hope that you will not have too much hostility in the future, and don't anger innocent people at will. Do you know why Master admires that young feudal lord more and more?"
As soon as she heard the young feudal lord, the originally absent-minded girl's eyes lit up immediately, and her face was filled with inexhaustible energy, "Speak quickly, Master, I'm listening."
The old man was quite helpless, angrily said with a smile: "Stop talking!"
The old man really kept his mouth shut, apart from being a bit angry, it was because Cao Changqing outside the city was getting faster and faster, and he had to concentrate on building up his momentum.
Today he, Chai Qingshan, stood here with a long sword on his back, not just to see the scenery.
The girl curled her lips, knowing the master's temper, she didn't ask further.
Chai Qingshan squinted his eyes and looked into the distance. The old man's eyes followed the arrows raining at the top of the city and threw them at the green shirt.
At the top of the city is a bed crossbow, and below the city are 6,000 strong sharp archers.
The upper and lower waves of arrows cover the sky and cover the earth.
The old man had a strange idea for no reason. If the Xu family of Beiliang had no grudges with the Zhao family of Liyang, the young feudal lord would have no complaints or regrets to be that loyal minister wholeheartedly, and the emperor of the Zhao family also believed in him and gave great support to Beiliang. , with the Central Plains as the backing, supporting the Beiliang iron cavalry and the two Liao frontier troops to jointly fight against Beimang, how good would that be? If Cao Changqing outside the city could become an official in the court like Sun Xiji and many Western Chu survivors, he might be the chief assistant of Liyang now. Lead the group of Yonghui Old Spring and Xiangfu New Year to plan strategies together. There are 300,000 Beiliang cavalry and 200,000 Liao frontier troops outside. Why worry about the world not being peaceful? Even if they were given hundreds of thousands more soldiers in Beimang, so what
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On a small road in the northern part of Gyeonggi Province, Yiqi rode southward to Tai'an City without any haste.
There was a stall selling dumplings and tea and wine on the side of the road. There was a young man and a woman sitting there, each with their heads buried in the two big bowls of dumplings.
That rider got off his horse, led the horse to the table, and asked, "Can you sit?"
The young man glanced at him, "Since you don't have a knife, you can sit down."
So Gu Jiantang sat on the bench next to Xu Fengnian and Jiang Ni.
After sitting down, the powerful Da Zhuguo asked with a smile: "Xu Fengnian, you treat me to a bowl of dumplings, and I will help you become emperor. Do you want to make this deal?"