Chapter 360: Stone

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty died, an era that cannot be said to be absolutely bad, but also can never be said to be good, has ended, however, the various shortcomings left by the era of Emperor Wu will never be easily eradicated with Emperor Wu's edict or even his death, but will continue indefinitely in history, even if his empire perishes, it will not disappear easily.

Because the idea of deposing the hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism to consolidate the imperial power has been deeply transplanted into the thoughts of the emperors of the past dynasties and the system of the imperial court, unless the imperial power collapses and there is no emperor in the world, it cannot be eliminated! Therefore, after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, even if there is an edict left by him, in addition to the two emperors of Han Zhao and Han Xuan after him, his descendants will once again enable Confucianism to govern the country and carry it forward. So much so that three generations later, the empire was seized for the first time by Wang Mang, a relative with Confucian status......

This is another period of nearly 100 years, and during this period of time, when all living beings are sluggish and unaware, Confucianism, which has flourished since the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, has completed the encirclement and suppression of the rest of the hundreds of schools of thought, and the remnants of the hundreds of schools of thought have escaped into the darkness, thus forming the prototype of the original demon gate.

After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, initially, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, one of his successors, once angrily warned his crown prince Confucian about the danger: "The family has its own system, and it is supposed to be a tyrant. And the vulgar Confucianism is not up to the time, but it is good that the past is not the present, so that people are dazzled by the name and the truth, and they don't know what to keep, how can they be appointed!" It's a pity that Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty didn't take this warning to his children, so that Confucianism flourished, and finally ended up with a relative usurping power.

However, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty's wise words are definitely not only for his own descendants. Even if it is passed down forever among the descendants of the Chinese nation as a golden rule, it is enough to be competent: after Wang Mang usurped power, in order to change the turbulent impact of the change of imperial power on the world's regime, Wang Mang was eager to make some achievements to consolidate his position, however, the final result. But the world was in turmoil, so that at that time, even the demon gate that had just taken shape did not take action in a big way, and the world was already a swarm of rebels, vying to crusade against the disloyal, unfilial and unrighteous traitor Wang Mang.

It must be known that Wang Mang was the head of his relatives before usurping power, and he has always boasted of his loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, and is actually the leader of Confucianism in the world, but he is such a seemingly loyal, filial piety, benevolent and righteous person, but he finally usurped the throne of his aunt and nephew's family. There is no hypocrite in the world more than this, and later Wang Mang exposed his cruel and incompetent nature in the process of reforming, so that the people of insight in the world immediately understood that the so-called Confucian disciples who have always flaunted their loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness are in addition to hypocritical insidious cunning. In fact, it is useless!

In short, it is precisely because of the full prosperity of Confucianism that no other scholarship can compete with it. Confucianism has completely ruled this huge country, and then, it is the great decline and the great melee after that, okay, the useless Confucianists go away, now is the time for the strong to fight......

The legendary story of the legendary emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu. It was also at this time that it began!

Liu Xiu was a descendant of one of the sons of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, that is, one of the sons of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, although this royal family was not qualified to inherit the throne. However, since it is an imperial family, and the blood relationship with the emperor at that time is not far away, life should always be rich - well, it should have been like this, but it is a pity that since Liu Xiu's ancestor Emperor Jing of Han implemented the policy of cutting feudal domains, coupled with the weakening of the local area and the enrichment of the central policy by Emperor Wu's generation, although he is the descendant of Emperor Jing, Liu Xiu's branch still declined rapidly after a few generations, so that by Liu Xiu's generation, although life is worryless, it can no longer be said to be rich, and the status of the family, It is already no different from civilians.

But in fact, the original Liu Xiu was still a very honest and loyal young man in his youth, and his ambitions were not very ambitious, for Liu Xiu at that time, he had a good means of making a living: farming, therefore, as long as the society is stable and there is nothing to do in the world, Liu Xiu hopes that he can live well with his own skills, of course, if he can become a petty official with his talents and royal status, and marry the beautiful girl Yin Lihua of the neighbor's family, then it will be perfect.

However, Wang Mang changed and created a great chaos in the world, so that even Liu Xiu, who wanted to be willing to be plain, had to be involved in the tide of history.

From the battle of Kunyang with a disparity in strength to win more with less, to his own brother was killed after miraculously escaping from the hands of Emperor Shigeng, riding into Hebei alone, but Hebei heroes have prepared their own manpower and material resources, admired and served - the attack must win the battle, even if the four gods of war at the end of the Warring States period are just like this, but also buried the light of the twenty-eight generals of Yuntai under their subordinates! In the past ten years, it has already dominated the world and leveled the world.

However, the reason why Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu was able to dominate China in just ten years is that his own ability is extremely good, but the people around him have also made great contributions, such as the queen Guo Shengtong and his family, who funded him from the beginning, and most of the twenty-eight generals under his Yuntai, but among them, the person who played the biggest role was the goddess he longed for from the beginning: Yin Lihua, the beautiful girl next door.

Yin Lihua is smart and beautiful, more considerate and gentle, so when Liu Xiu was still a civilian with nothing, he longed for her for a long time, and when Liu Xiu's prestige has shocked the world, Liu Xiu was finally able to marry the woman she dreamed of, however, due to the compulsion of career and life, Liu Xiu had to marry Guo Shengtong because he accepted the funding of Guo Shengtong's family when he was downtrodden in Hebei, and after he was called emperor, Guo Shengtong was set up as the queen, and Yin Lihua was wronged because of this.

However, Yin Lihua was extremely indifferent to this, and did not have any anger or jealousy, she was able to continue to love her husband deeply, and she was able to treat the rivals who snatched everything that originally belonged to her equally, and Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu became more and more guilty because of this. So much so that after a few decades, when the imperial power was stable, and the children of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu had grown up and had to start thinking about the heir, Liu Xiu finally abolished Guo Shengtong's position as queen, and handed over the position of queen to Yin Lihua again. And the son born to Yin Lihua and Liu Xiu also replaced the sons of Liu Xiu and Guo Shengtong and became Liu Xiu's heir to the throne. He succeeded to the throne after Liu Xiu's death and was known as Emperor Ming in history......

Many years later, Yin Lihua, the Guangwu Empress who has become history, has become a model for all women in the world to learn, however, what future generations will not know is that Yin Lihua is not just a young lady from an ordinary rich family, in secret. Her identity is actually the descendant of the early Demon Gate Yue Nu and Wu Maiden lineage - different from the hundreds of masters and apprentices of the Warring States Period in the Central Plains at that time, relying on the inheritance of civilization by the various factions remaining in more remote areas such as Baiyue and Dongyi, most of them still maintain the more primitive way of relying on blood to inherit civilization such as father and son, mother and daughter. When the wheel of history crushed to the stage of the fall of the Western Han Dynasty, due to the prosperity of Confucianism and the ensuing comprehensive opposition of social class oppression, the sons of the Central Plains quickly merged with the more primitive inheritance civilization of various factions in various places. Thus, the original Demon Gate was formed.

Of course. Because Confucianism at this time had not yet formed a pattern of complete victory like the weak Song Dynasty in the later generations for about a thousand years, and the hundred-legged insects died but did not stiffen, from the Han Wu Emperor to depose the Confucianism Wang Mang who was the sole Confucian scholar and failed to usurp power, it was only a few decades, although Confucianism has firmly controlled the mainstream voice of the upper class. The hundred schools of thought and the primitive beliefs that are still prevalent in various places still have their strong foundations, and therefore, the formation of the Demon Gate is forced by the situation. However, the various factions involved in the civilization inheritance force could not work together, and in fact, due to mutual distrust between them, almost all of the various civilization inheritance factions that joined the Demon Gate took out the energy not inferior to that of Confucianism to guard against their allies - which naturally caused a great loss of strength. As a result, in fact, all factions have also hidden a large part of their strength. Therefore, the initial Demon Gate was actually just a plate of loose sand, just an extremely loose alliance.

And the person who finally changed the status quo of the Demon Gate was Yin Lihua.

The original Yin Lihua was just the descendant of the Demon Gate Yue Nu and the Witch Maiden, although the Witch Maiden was not weak, and Yin Lihua was also a very talented person, but among the loose Demon Gates at that time, the recognized strongest person was the Mo family and the Taoist family among the hundred schools of the Warring States Princes.

Needless to say, the Mohist family was the most prominent scholar in the world at the end of the Warring States Period. It is also different from other pure academic schools, with its own armed forces, so that in its heyday, it was even enough to wrestle with the Seven Heroes of the Warring States - although later, with the Qin Dynasty destroying the Six Kingdoms of the East and advocating Legalism, and the Han Dynasty Qin and advocating Taoism, the strength of the Mo family gradually declined, so that it no longer had the prosperity of the past, but even so, its strong accumulation was not at all comparable to most of the small forces in the Demon Gate who were just in a corner.

The history of Taoism is undoubtedly more ancient, the three emperors and five emperors in the ancient mythology do not need to be mentioned, but since Lao Tzu Hua Hu left three thousand words of "Tao Te Ching", until Zhuangzi leisurely travel, Taoist thought has been extremely mature, it can be said that although Taoism in the pre-Qin period was not as prosperous as Confucianism and Mo, but it is also a school of thought that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

In particular, when the wheel of history came to the early years of the Han Dynasty, because the rulers of the early years of the Han Dynasty advocated the doctrine of Taoist Huang Lao Wuwei in their thoughts, so that during this period, Taoist thought almost reached its unprecedented glory. It firmly occupies the ideological field of the ruling class, which is beyond the reach of any other school, so that the leaders of Confucianism at that time were very jealous of it, and often maliciously slandered the Taoist doctrine, and thus led to a period of "Empress Dowager Dou was angry and threw Confucianism into the pigsty, Emperor Jing of Han eagerly threw his sword to help, and all the noble ministers watched the Confucian pig Shura field ......" The eternal laughing stock came out.

As a result, Taoism was brilliant in the early years of the Han Dynasty, and because it was highly respected by the rulers, it was natural that its power had far surpassed that of the Mohists, who were glorious during the Warring States Period. It's just a pity that the admiration of the ruler is undoubtedly a double-edged sword, which has had a huge impact on the Taoist idea of Wuwei, and the final consequence is the split between the two factions of Taoism and the WTO!

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposed the Hundred Schools. After respecting Confucianism, the status of Taoism has plummeted since then, and the Taoist inheritance that advocates the birth of a lineage can naturally use this to cut off the relationship with the world, and from then on concentrate on the way of heaven and man to understand the changes of heaven and man, but the entry into the world will inevitably be lost because of the neglect of the imperial power. In order to maintain the stability of his own ruling empire, Emperor Wu replaced Taoism with Confucianism as the ideological tool of the ruler to govern the country, and he would inevitably use Confucianism and the ruling power of the state to strangle any doctrine that dared to raise objections to the imperial power granted by heaven. And the Taoist lineage of entry into the WTO, because of its past experience and its huge influence in the ruling class, unfortunately bore the brunt......

The author of the famous "Huainanzi", the royal family Liu An, was exterminated because of the rebellion. "Huainanzi" was also banned and burned because of this. A large number of royal relatives were convicted because they were implicated...... So that the Taoist lineage into the world was almost devastated, and had to escape into the darkness because of this, and in the thousands of years since then, it has gradually transformed into the left path and the flow of the left way that is despised by the upper class in the world, and the Taoist who was born does not care about the world, but is highly respected in the world, it is completely two extremes!!

The way of heaven works. Rushing to profit and loss, so from the perspective of Taoism's birth. In fact, the last painful hand of WTO accession is entirely self-inflicted and self-inflicted by the WTO accession -- the consequence of persisting in not leaving the stage that has already ended is that there is no place for you in the next stage. However, even with a huge crackdown. Because of the huge amount accumulated before, the remnants of the Dao Sect of the First Pulse of Entering the World are still not to be underestimated, so that when this force escapes into the darkness, the huge power of the Mo family and other forces that have been rooted in the darkness for a long time may not be able to stabilize the first line of the Dao Sect of the World even if they join forces. In addition, although the Daomen has been divided, in any case, the inheritance of the two lineages of birth and entry into the WTO is the Taoist inheritance after all, and therefore, if the Daomen encounters a crisis when entering the WTO, the one that is born and hides the world will inevitably stand up to defend its other branch.

It must be known that since the split of the Daomen, although the power of the Daomen is rarely displayed in front of the world, but also because of this, the Daomen was born in the first line of failure to suffer a major loss under the policy of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to depose the Confucianism of the hundred schools of thought, and then, with the great revival of Confucianism but then in the land of China continued to stage a chaos and a rule, its rise and fall and the sudden cycle of the dynasty, the Taoist birth lineage focused on the simple and focused philosophical spirit has been more and more recognized by the rulers and the people. Even after thousands of years, Confucianism has firmly occupied the dominant position of Chinese culture, but the birth of Taoism is still extremely jealous.

Fortunately, although the Daomen family that was born was extremely strong, after all, because of the division of the Daomen, unless it is time for real life and death, the two factions of birth and entry into the WTO are inseparable from each other in most of the period, and therefore, in the interior of the Demon Gate at the beginning, the newly joined Daomen line is evenly matched with the early forces of the Demon Gate led by the Mo family at the beginning, and no one side has any hope of being able to quickly and cleanly annex the other party, but it will not cause huge hidden dangers. Therefore, although the intensity of the internal struggle between the demons and the demons at the time of its establishment far exceeded that of later generations, because of the rat trap, the two major forces and the countless small and medium-sized forces mixed in the two forces were barely maintained in a delicate balance.

Until, the world is in chaos......

The next thing can naturally be told without repeating, in short, as a small sect leader of the witch sect of a medium sect in the huge power of the Demon Gate, Yin Lihua and Liu Xiu are perfectly combined, the two are both husband and wife, and they are also close allies, under each other's appearance, one is fighting the world on the bright side, and the other is gradually unifying the Demon Gate in the dark, so that when Liu Xiu finally sewed the divided world back into one, Yin Lihua also made the Demon Gate extremely huge, But it was like the power of a plate of loose sand condensed for the first time, and firmly grasped it in his hands. (To be continued.) )