The snow fell down in the open woods.

Song Yufu was still a little nervous, after all, this was also taking her boyfriend to meet her parents, walked to the chess table and picked up the food box, and whispered:

"Grandfather, he is the prince of King Su Xu Buling."

Xu Buling raised his hand and saluted: "Meet the old man." ”

The old master didn't turn his head, but just raised his hand to indicate the seat opposite:

"Yufu, you go and wait."

Song Yufu actually wanted to hear what her grandfather and Xu Buling had to say, but when her grandfather didn't let her listen, she had to give up and honestly ran outside the woods to wait.

Xu Buling's expression was modest and polite, he sat down opposite the chess table, and looked up, the old master had gray hair, even his beard was white, he had a hooked nose and clear eyes, and he looked like he was also a talent when he was young. And the aura is very strong, I didn't raise my eyes to look at Xu Buling, Xu Buling was still a little restless.

The aura is a very mysterious thing, and it generally appears between the superior and the lower, invisible and intangible, but it does exist. There is also a gap in knowledge, well-informed and experienced, you can see all of the other party at a glance, so you are calm, while the other party knows nothing and can't see through, and you will naturally be nervous in the face of the unknown.

Xu Buling is estimated to be no older than the old man opposite in his two lives combined, and his social status is not necessarily as high as the other party, so he is not surprised by this, and his eyes are on the chessboard in front of him......

What the hell is this......

Xu Buling can play Go, but the chessboard in front of him is messy and has no rules at all, and he didn't understand it after watching it for a long time, and he couldn't help but wonder:

"What kind of chess is this, sir?"

The old master flicked his fingers and threw the chess pieces into the chess basket: "This is not a chess, it is a mark, and you can't understand it." ”

"Uh......"

Xu Buling slapped a sycophant: "I heard that the old gentleman knows the world without leaving home, and I am a common man, and I can't understand it for granted." ”

The old master raised his eyes and looked at it: "Do you know what to do when I called you over?" ”

Xu Buling looked at Song Yufu who was looking in the distance: "For Miss Song's marriage?" ”

"That's one of them."

The old master's eyes were flat, and he swept the chessboard in front of him:

"Chang'an locked dragon Gu bureau, the old man has been watching, Yufu came to beg me, only to wake you up a little, but I didn't expect that you had already unlocked the lock dragon Gu, and the way to break the game was also unexpected, so I called you over to take a look."

The sentence 'It is difficult to become a Taoist against the sky, and the real dragon is homeopathic' did wake up Xu Buling at that time, and it was only since then that Xu Buling decided to take advantage of the trend. If there is no such sentence, Xu Buling does not follow the established route, and the most likely result is that he is still in Chang'an City and deals with Song Ji and Song Yu, or he is killed from Chang'an, and Xiliang and the imperial court have already fought.

Therefore, Xu Buling was still grateful to this old master, and smiled at the moment:

"Trapped in Chang'an and there is no way out, just to seek a way to survive to protect yourself, thank you old gentleman for sending charcoal in the snow."

The old master shook his head: "If you ask for a way to live, someone else will die, and this matter is not over." ”

"Huh?"

Xu Buling frowned, and thought for a moment: "Why did Mr. say this?" ”

"Since Song Ji succeeded to the throne, he has ambition and courage, and he is impeccable in all aspects, and he should be a Ming monarch who dominates the world. But Song Ji is too ambitious, and he wants to finish everything in this life, so as not to leave future troubles for his children and grandchildren, and the result is obvious. ”

The old master looked at the mountains in the distance and said in a deep voice:

"Since the previous dynasty, the world has become a good martial arts, and the bandits in the mountains and wilderness have frequently appeared and their forces are intricate, and each master does not listen to the orders of the imperial court, but after hundreds of years, it has already become its own rule.

The first thing Song Ji did when he succeeded to the throne was to eliminate the bandits in the rivers and lakes, and the original intention and method were correct, but there was a problem in the process, and the patronizing bandits did not make every effort to rectify the government, resulting in inconsistent local orders and taking the opportunity to make a lot of money. The disobedience of the forces in the rivers and lakes led to the Iron Eagle Deer Hunt, and the bloody world really shocked the rivers and lakes, making Da Yue look much more peaceful on the surface, but he also drilled many holes in the thousand-mile causeway.

In the past, Zhu Lu Cao and other forces in the rivers and lakes, although they drew a clear line with the government, but when the family business is big, they require stability after all. Just like the Cao family, who originally controlled the waterways around Yueyang, they had to greet the Cao family when they traveled from all over the world, and in order to maintain this status, they also tried their best to maintain the stability around Yueyang, and they did not exclude the decrees of the imperial court, as long as they greeted them, they would never embarrass the local officials.

After the iron eagle deer hunting, the Cao family retreated from the rivers and lakes and no longer took care of affairs, and the affected people in the rivers and lakes had no way out, resulting in bandits on the waterways. The government does not have the reputation accumulated by the Cao family for hundreds of years, and it can't command the bandits in the rivers and lakes, and the officers and soldiers are good at attacking the city and conquering the city, but they are helpless against the bandits in the rivers and lakes, so they can only hand it over to the wolf guard. But the world is so big, Wolf Guard's little bit of people is tantamount to a drop in the bucket. The world is even more chaotic. ”

Xu Buling thought for a while: "As a monarch, it is impossible to let a lawless place like rivers and lakes exist. Today's original intention of the saint is indeed correct, and there are many reasons for the final trouble, but no matter how chaotic the rivers and lakes are, it is just a child's play, and it does not affect the overall situation. ”

The old master nodded lightly: "This matter has nothing to do with the overall situation, but Song Ji didn't handle it well enough, and exposed the shortcomings of his too tough handling methods." At the same time as Song Ji was hunting deer at the iron eagle, he began to brew the cutting of the domain.

Since the Spring and Autumn Period, the power of the princes and kings has been too great, and the monarchs of all dynasties have tried to cut the feudal domain, but the end is either the world changes hands or it is not over. In the previous dynasty, the Jiang clan of the Great Qi Dynasty was the unification that was won by the monarch because of the reduction of the feudal domain and the self-reliance, and the same was true of the Song clan. If the seven founding kings are not cut, the Song family will never be stable. ”

Xu Buling chuckled at this: "That's true." ”

"Although the seven kings have their own policies and even old grudges against each other, they have always been the same enemy in the matter of cutting the domain. Song Ji locked the dragon Gu layout for you, and he would have won the battle. As long as King Su could not threaten Guanzhong Dao with one cut, the other vassal kings would not dare to resist the emperor's orders even if they complained......

…… But you broke the situation in Chang'an and returned to the fiefdom unharmed, Song Ji didn't do anything, and he turned against King Su. The other vassal kings also understood that Song Ji really wanted to cut the domain, and they had already made a move. What do you think those vassal kings would be? ”

Xu Buling blinked his eyes and did not speak.

The old master snorted lightly: "So you walked out of a way of life safe and sound, and Song Ji entered a dead end." It is a fact that the knife has been moved, and it is irretrievable at all, I don't believe that your kid is still thinking about the prince of heaven and earth, and taking Song Ji as the monarch, and the other six Song vassal kings are the same, all waiting for King Su to make a move, and then sit back and reap the benefits of the fisherman. ”

Xu Buling thought for a while: "The old gentleman came to me, is that what he said?" ”

The old master shook his head: "These are obvious things, you should be clear. I called you here to tell you not to do your job. As the prince of Su, he carries on his shoulders the people of the world.

The old man knows that you want to be a heroic hero, and you will be accompanied by beautiful women and wine for a lifetime, but your identity is destined to give you no such blessing. From the day you walked out of Chang'an City unharmed, the road for the rest of your life will be fixed - if you don't sit on the dragon chair, you will inevitably be wiped out. ”

Xu Buling laughed: "This is not a trivial matter, it will kill many people." ”

"I don't want to die, I can relieve the military power, and the whole family will go to Chang'an to be an idle prince, Song Ji will be very grateful to your Xu family if he wants to come."

"The old gentleman is so humorous."

The old master snorted without smiling and raised his hand:

"When you go to Jiangnan, you should encounter something, the hairpin that Yufu gave you, if someone wants to borrow it to watch, you don't have to hide it."

Xu Buling bowed slightly, and thought for a while: "By the way, old man, what are the four pieces of jade that Zuo Zhexian left behind?" ”

"It's useless, it's just the bait that Li Hansheng threw out."

"Bait ......"

Xu Buling didn't ask any more questions, got up and saluted and prepared to leave, thought about it and said with a smile:

"Sir, when I leave, can you take Miss Song with you?"

The old master did not reply, and continued to study the chessboard.

Defaulted!

Xu Buling nodded lightly, and walked to Song Yufu, who was standing outside the woods, satisfied......